Summary

Part 1, Chapter 9 – The hospital where Novalee is staying is swamped with reporters and the media. Forney comes to visit. Novalee wants to know what is so special about having her baby in Wal-Mart. Forney says it is his fault for setting off an alarm at the police station by breaking the window. The police and the ambulance came. Novalee is not mad at all, but incredibly happy and grateful that Forney was there to help her. As Forney leaves, Novalee’s nurse comments that Forney is a strange one. Novalee goes to sleep, and when she wakes up, food is being brought to her by Lexie Coop, another nurse. She is young and pretty and has four kids. Lexie explains her first kid came around when she was fifteen, and that she just kept having them as she was looking...