Summary

This section is eight chapters long including, “‘Like a Candle Blown Out,’” “The Archivist Interviewed,” “Law of Exponents,” “‘Remains,’” “Rejoice!,” “Children of the Deceased,” “Voice Mail,” and “‘New Idea.’” “‘Like a Candle Blown Out’” describes Gus’s death from Jenna’s perspective. It starts with Jenna alone in the house in St. Croix, Wisconsin. She had just dropped the children off at school, and her husband was in Ohio. She thought about her children, and how Melissa seemed to need her more from her, than Darren or Naomi. She feels free at home, doing her work. She feels angry with her husband for living away in Ohio, but also freer and safer away in St. Croix. She thinks about how they had just gotten settled in St. Croix when her husband was asked to move to Huron...