Summary

Leonie resumes the narration in Chapter 10. She regains consciousness, an experience that is similar to what it felt like to float from the bottom of a river she dove into years ago when she dated Michael. Michael tells her what happened and explains that they are an hour away from her parents' home. She then has a dream of floating on a sinking raft in the Gulf of Mexico with Michael and her children; she is unable to keep her children from sinking, "failing them" because they are drowning (195). She wakes up, and Michael proposes that they drop the kids off at home, by which he means Pop and Mam's house (they are not welcome at Big Joseph and Maggie's house). Leonie is silently taken aback since she had envisioned them living in their own space in an apartment in a...