Summary

Chapter Nineteen, “Kent Kelly” - In first-person, past-tense narration, Annie’s cousin Kent Kelly describes his current circumstances: he is a felon, convicted of possessing child pornography; he works the overnight shift in a seniors’ care home; he has a stash of child pornography in his room in a half-way house; and he believes that he is not a bad guy. He then describes his past life as an insurance salesman. He used to seduce clients into buying what he was selling, and he made a particular target of single mothers with daughters, so he could go home and masturbate to fantasies about those daughters. He describes what he believes to have been the reasons he turned out how he did – the departure of his father from his parents’ marriage, as well as his having to be...