Summary

This section begins a new part titled, “The Life and Death of Gus Voorhees: An Archive” (109). This section includes 14 chapters, though many of them are single pages, or only several pages. The voice of the perspective is not revealed until the end to be Naomi, Dr. Voorhees’s middle child and older daughter. The first chapter, the “Abortionist’s Daughter” is one page, one sentence, “You must be grateful, he didn’t kill you” (111). The second chapter “Memory, Undated” is a child asking why they cannot live with Daddy and the assumed mother responding they cannot live with him because it is dangerous, and that she is mad at Daddy but she loves him. The third chapter is titled, “Memory, Undated: Flying Glass” (115). It is two pages long, and starts and ends with...