Part 2, Chapter 7, Nuclear Stability Summary

The Litch house progress is amazing by the following Saturday. Kate and Toby help clean windows while volunteers continue work on the house. Toby questions why the Litches didn't clean anything up after Charlie Litch, father and husband, had gone to jail. Kate surmises that it was a question of energy, time, and money.

That evening, as the volunteers eat, Mikey gets through his childproof gate and electrocutes himself. He dies instantly. It turns out that Mikey is Teri's son.

Part 2, Chapter 7, Nuclear Stability Analysis

Kate and Toby begin helping with the Litch house. Progress -mostly because of community and church volunteers- is astounding. Everything seems to be going according to plan. Teri herself is helping to direct construction efforts. Yet tragedy strikes when Mikey accidentally kills himself. Teri's character is given an added dimension when it...