Summary

Chapter 6. Joe attends Finn’s funeral, sitting through the words of an unengaging priest and trying to not think about the aging, badly tended cemetery or how the rumble of a passing train might be the same train that killed Finn. After the ceremony, Joe has a conversation with Finn’s daughter, Grace. He comforts her as best he can, talking about how good a man he thought her father was. She, in turn, tells him that her father was a fan – he had a Biden bumper sticker on his car. Grace also reveals that her father visited her mother every day, and that he had taken out an additional life insurance policy on himself with the idea that if he died, she would be taken care of. As the conversation ends, Joe wonders whether Finn intended to kill himself in order to...