Chapter 12 Summary

Susie watches as Jack lies still after the beating. Susie watches as the surgeon sews her father back together. In the Salmon house, the family wakes up to the sound of police sirens. They search for Jack, but then they realize that he is not in the house and the police presence must involve him.

Lindsey tells her mother that she must go out to find Jack, but Abigail refuses to let her. Lindsey is very frustrated by her mother's decision. After Brian beats Jack with the baseball bat, Jack is in the hospital. The family attends to Jack at the hospital. Lindsey sits with her father and sings a song that Jack had always sung to her and Susie. Jack is under medication and does not wake to Lindsey's singing.

In Susie's heaven, Franny reminds Susie that her family can move on...