In chapter 22 James goes and meets Aubrey Rubenstein where he answers all of james questions. For example when James gets there Aubrey gets on the phone and then tells james to go meet Gerry Jaffe and his family and that sounded familiar to him “I knew the name Jaffe Mommy had spoken of them several times” (james 224) that the slaughter house his mom would talk about.James is also told why people would leave that place “why stay? he said it was not an easy place for a jew to live”(james 225) finds out that his mom didn’t have it as easy when he got told it was not the best place to be since pretty much all the jews left. The last thing he finds out is why his mother would not talk about her family or her past. “ I asked him about my family