Summary

Chapter 13

It is 1989 and this chapter is set in Connecticut, focusing on a new character, Amelia. Her two daughters are out of the house, one at boarding school and the other at college. Amelia and her husband aren’t getting along well, and has suggested several times that they separate. Amelia is wracked with guilt over accidentally killing their old poodle, who jumped into her car without her knowledge and died in the hot car. However, as a result of the dog’s death, it seemed, for a while, to bring her and her husband, Cam, back together. It does not last.

Now, because she’s inadvertently left the back gate open their other dog has slipped out. Cam runs after her and returns with the dog, furious with Amelia. They quarrel and he tells her that she’s let herself...