Summary

As Polley opens the last in a series of six essays, life is blissful. Her children are content, and she is writing the screenplay for a remake of Little Women. Nevertheless, she feels a deep sense of trepidation. By the next evening, she will have a serious concussion from a fire extinguisher that fell on her head while she was rummaging around in a lost and found bin at her community center. All she had wanted to do was take a swim before she picked up her daughter Eve from preschool. She took the swim and then after showering found that she had misplaced her blow-dryer. She didn't even care about the blow-dryer, but this time, she looked in the bin, stood up quickly to take her coat off, and sustained a concussion that would haunt her for the...