Chapters Eleven and Twelve Summary

In Chapter Eleven, Meredith finally reaches her grandmother's house after taking back roads and avoiding her mother's car. Once at her grandmother's house, her grandmother meets her with real concern. Her mother, however, is angry because she left Meredith alone for ten minutes and she ran away. Meredith indicates that her father put moves on her and her mother turns white. After her grandmother ascertains that Meredith has not been raped again, she sends Meredith to the shower and her mother to fix lunch.

After Meredith has her shower, she smokes a cigarette and thinks about Andy. He was paralyzed during an accident graduation night when he was hanging out the window of an SUV. The driver of the SUV cut a corner too sharply slamming Andy into the metal post of a stop sign, then onto...