The Hunger by Alma Katsu, Part 3

Welcome to Part 3 of GUBR reads The Hunger by Alma Katsu. Please listen to part 1 & 2 first.  
The Hunger is a novel based on the historic, ill-fated wagon train known as The Donner Party. As this book is big and complicated, it will take us 3 parts to cover it all. We will accelerate our usual schedule and release each part on a consecutive Sunday. If you haven't read The Hunger, don't worry, we're going to go over everything including the exhausting number of characters in this book. And for the truly uninitiated, this book contains violence against women and children, animal harm, suicide and, of course, cannibalism. This novel is intended for adults and so is this podcast.