Chapter 68 THE PROPOSAL
I write the book proposal in the first week of February, alone in the carrel, all sixty-two notebooks finally read, a stack of my own pages beside me thick enough to need a rubber band — Margaret's method, inherited without my noticing until I looked down and saw what I'd done.
The proposal is elev...
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Chapters
1. Chapter 1 TUESDAYS ARE THE WORST INVENTION
2. Chapter 2 NEEDLE POSITION
3. Chapter 3 WHAT GREER WANTS
4. Chapter 4 THE THINGS WE DO NOT SAY AT DINNER
5. Chapter 5 KELLERTON, AND WHAT IT COSTS
6. Chapter 6 WHAT THE CARBURETOR COSTS
7. Chapter 7 FINN
8. Chapter 8 THE THINGS GREER LEAVES BEHIND
9. Chapter 9 SOL DOES THE MATH
10. Chapter 10 WHAT KEEPING QUIET COSTS
11. Chapter 11 THE NIGHT FINN DOES SOMETHING STUPID
12. Chapter 12 ROOK IN THE DARK
13. Chapter 13 WHAT GOES ON UNDER THE CABINET
14. Chapter 14 WHAT ROOK DOES WITH LOYALTY
15. Chapter 15 FOUR WEEKS
16. Chapter 16 CLOSE ENOUGH TO BURN
17. Chapter 17 WAR COUNCIL
18. Chapter 18 THE ATTORNEY AND THE GHOST
19. Chapter 19 GHOSTS DON'T DRIVE
20. Chapter 20 MAMA MERCER
21. Chapter 21 WHAT DADDY WANTS
22. Chapter 22 FIND HIM
23. Chapter 23 THE WAREHOUSE
24. Chapter 24 EMAIL FROM HELL
25. Chapter 25 HER NAME IN HIS HANDWRITING
26. Chapter 26 BLOOD WE DIDN'T CHOOSE
27. Chapter 27 WHAT STAYS AND WHAT DOESN'T
28. Chapter 28 THE ONE WITH THE ATTORNEY
29. Chapter 29 DIDN'T SEE THAT ONE COMING
30. Chapter 30 A TALE OF TWO LIARS
31. Chapter 31 THE SLOW KIND
32. Chapter 32 VISITING HOURS
33. Chapter 33 DECEMBER
34. Chapter 34 THINGS SAID IN THE DARK
35. Chapter 35 IRON AND WILDFLOWERS
36. Chapter 36 THE MUSTANG
37. Chapter 37 WHAT FINN KNOWS
38. Chapter 38 NEW YEAR'S EVE
39. Chapter 39 : JANUARY LIGHT
40. Chapter 40 WHAT NATHAN SAYS
41. Chapter 41 FEBRUARY
42. Chapter 42 SIX MONTHS
43. Chapter 43 THE NATIONAL EDITOR
44. Chapter 44 WHAT ROOK BUILDS
45. Chapter 45 THE THING SOL FILMS
46. Chapter 46 : THE LETTER ROOK WRITES
47. Chapter 47 GRADUATION
48. Chapter 48 SUMMER
49. Chapter 49 THE LAST TUESDAY
50. Chapter 50 THE MORNING I GO
51. Chapter 51 BELLHAVEN
52. Chapter 52 UHMM, WHY?
53. Chapter 53 SATURDAYS
54. Chapter 54 THE ONE WITH JADE
55. Chapter 55 : THE SIGNAL PUBLISHES
56. Chapter 56 WHAT OCTOBER DOES
57. Chapter 57 THE INTERVIEW
58. Chapter 58 NOVEMBER ARRIVES LIKE A TRUTH
59. Chapter 59 WHAT GETS SAID AT THANKSGIVING
60. Chapter 60 THE LAST SATURDAY OF THE SEMESTER
61. Chapter 61 GOING BACK
62. Chapter 62 MARGARET
63. Chapter 63 THE ATTIC
64. Chapter 64 CHRISTMAS EVE
65. Chapter 65 NEW YEAR, SECOND TIME
66. Chapter 66 THE CARREL IN JANUARY
67. Chapter 67 WHAT ROOK MAKES
68. Chapter 68 THE PROPOSAL
69. Chapter 69 THE WAITING
70. Chapter 70 TUESDAY, TWO O'CLOCK
71. Chapter 71 COUSIN PERRY
72. Chapter 72 THE LETTER FROM A LAWYER
73. Chapter 73 LUCAS HALE
74. Chapter 74 THE TUTOR
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