Summary

Chapter 9 begins with Frankie and her mom watching a news story about the prevalence of the posters, which have now been spotted all over Nashville (84). This makes Frankie unhappy, but it makes Zeke feel more at ease. One of Brian’s brothers sees Lyle, a 22-year-old who had a terrible accent on a four-wheeler that left his sister in an ongoing coma, whose eyes Frankie describes as “crazy,” hang up a poster outside a gas station (86). Plus, Madeline, a former cheerleader turned religious Nine Inch Nails listener (87), starts hanging up posters of her own. Frankie explains how lots of other people, too, started hanging up their own posters, all under the guise of being “fugitives” too (88). Zeke’s mom has divorce papers ready to send off, but Zeke doesn’t “‘want her to do it’” (90). Lyle dies a few days later trying to...