Summary

In the Prologue, Jack Masselin writes a letter to an unidentified person apologizing for some action he is about to take to stop a game. He claims he is trying to keep people from getting hurt. Jack also confides to this person that even though he had not been officially diagnosed, he has prosopagnosia, a condition that keeps him from recognizing faces, even his own and those of his family members.

In the section “18 Hours Earlier,” Libby Strout says if she had three wishes she would wish her mother was still alive, that nothing sad would happen, and that she would be a member of the Damsels drill team at Martin Van Buren High School. She introduces herself as the girl known as America’s Fattest Teen. When she was 13, she weighed 653 pounds and had to be rescued from her home...