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"I Heard Voices"

In the 1975 wing of the story within a story, Josh, the one who "hears voices," has his Bar Mitzvah. During the service, he sings to God that he will become a poet.

Meanwhile, we learn more about Leila's background. Her mother dies in 1967 when she is three. She worships her father Damoo who lives with his strict Muslim mother in a house on the Hillcrest Road. At an early age, Leila discovers that she can fly.

Ray, meanwhile, revels in his love for Abba's hit song "S.O.S.," recalls his first trip to India to meet his guru Bollo about whom he wrote a Rolling Stone magazine cover story in 1975, discusses reincarnation and the religions that arose in the mountains of Persia and India.