Summary

Chapter 20: Emmett is still not home. Sam is hung-over and goes grocery shopping. She spends their grocery allowance on exotic foods she’s never tried before, like canned oysters. She gets home and finds a hidden joint of Emmett’s. She smokes the joint and starts rooting through her mother’s things left behind in her old bedroom. She finds necklaces and takes them into the kitchen where she cuts the beads loose. She then decides to glue them on to the ceramic cat that she just bought. She talks to Dawn on the phone and Dawn still has not told Ken about her pregnancy. Hearing Dawn talk about being pregnant reminds Sam there is nothing for her in Hopewell, except Tom.

Chapter 21: It is Sunday and Sam still has not seen Emmett or his cat, Moon Pie. She calls Anita’s house...