Section 6: Part Two, pages 85-110 Summary

Part Two begins with "Cold" in which Jane recalls standing in the water and moving farther from shore. "Calm, 84 Percent" discusses statistics of shark attacks before Jane notes that "sometimes you're just in the wrong place at the wrong time" (page 88). Jane returns home in "Real World", but though everything is the same, she is different, and she feels that difference acutely. In "The Kitchen", Jane recalls rushing to get to the beach and wonders if things would have turned out differently if she had just slowed down. In "Oil in the Machinery", Jane continually bumps into Mom and spills things. She has come home one arm smaller and lighter, "so why do I take up more space than before" (page 92)? Jane searches "The Web" for sites about amputees, and she decides she will never...