Cass, Chapters 1 through 6 Summary

As the story opens, Caitlin, the main character, wakes on the morning of her birthday to find a gift from her sister, Cass, outside her bedroom door. She then learns that Cass has left a note for her parents in the kitchen and has run away from home. Cass—short for Cassandra—is eighteen and due to begin school at Yale in the fall. The family knows that she has probably gone with her new boyfriend who lives in New York and works on the television set of the Lamont Whipper Show. As the family is reeling over this situation, their neighbors—Boo and Stewart Connell—arrive for Caitlin's birthday breakfast. Jack O'Koren, Caitlin's father, calls the police and learns that there is really nothing to be done until Cass has been missing for a...