Summary

In “Remaining Wanderings 1 and 2” Violet visits the shoe trees. For years people have been leaving pairs of shoes hanging by their laces from these trees. Violet leaves a pair of her shoes and a pair of Eleanor’s. On the highest branch of the tree she sees Finch’s pair of shoes with the fluorescent laces hanging. At the World’s Biggest Ball of Paint, she learns that Finch visited and painted the ball the color violet.

Back at home Violet tells her parents she needs them to start talking to her about Eleanor again. She’s tired of feeling like her sister didn’t exist. She doesn’t want them to pretend any longer. By the time they are finished, they are all crying and hugging one another.

In “Remaining Wanderings 3 and 4” Violet visit the remains of...