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Empire Falls Study Guide

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by Richard Russo
About 113 pages (33,744 words)
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Part 2, Chapter 11 Summary

Janine Roby is sitting in Callahan's practicing her soon-to-be signature, Janine Louise Comeau, and thinking ill thoughts about Miles. Her mother, Bea, is changing a keg behind the bar. Janine wants to make sure that she signs her new signature smoothly and in a practiced fashion when the divorce from Miles is final and she can marry the Silver Fox. Janine keeps correcting her thought chain whenever she thinks of Miles as her husband, modifying it to "My soon to be ex-husband." Janine is practicing her signature on a tall stack of cocktail napkins, each of which will hold five versions of her soon-to-be name-three on the back, but only two on the front because of the green Callahan's shamrock logo. Janine is arguing with her mother, who clearly likes Miles.....

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