She Waits, Seething, Blooming - Notes for a Story of a Man Who Will Not Die Alone Summary

A single mother stays up late waiting for her son, who is fifteen, who has not yet come home. She wants to smack him with a golf club for making her worry. She decides to put together a list of criticisms when he shows up at 2:47.

Tom travels to see Erin, for them to spend a long weekend on the Isle of Skye. Erin had left Tom and Washington, D.C., the year before for England. They had met while protesting the potential bombing of Afghanistan. Erin is missing her left arm, and works for the Treasury as a liaison to the IMF. Erin's parents are divorced and seeing other people...