Summary

Chapter 4 begins with the good-natured Nogales' dropping Irene at home. She falls asleep on the couch, wrapped in Luce's hand-crocheted afghan and awakes in the morning thinking only of checking on Luce. Before Irene can text Nogales for a ride to the hospital, Luce walks through the door in a hurry to make it to a 12-step meeting. The two walk to the local church in whose basement they have been attending meetings for nearly a year, as Irene explains how much she and Luce had been looking forward to and planning their upcoming one-year anniversary of being clean from drugs. When the time comes for people to accept tokens for their varying lengths of sobriety, Irene is shocked that Luce stands up to claim a one-day token and assures Luce that the medical Ketamine did not count as a relapse, with...