Summary

In Chapter 6, there was a full moon, but the protagonist did not make the effort to go outside and look at it. She thought about how her father's political opinions seemed to have been shaped by a steady diet of cable news shows. She remembered a recent school shooting, in which high school students sent text messages to their parents while locked in closets fearing their impending deaths, and how these students later marched on Washington, “lying down in front of the White House” (91). While on tour in Norway, a journalist mentioned to her the 2011 “massacre” (92) in which a gunman opened fire at a summer camp, killing 77. In Toronto, she spoke with a man she met about the difficulty of writing about the portal. Back at home, she asked for a small safe, disguised as a dictionary, for her birthday. When she got...