Summary

No Outlet - Family of Origin

No Outlet

Rebecca Winter wakes up startled from a deep sleep by what she thinks is the sound of a shotgun, though she has no idea what a shotgun sounds like in person because she has grown up and spent most of her life in West Manhattan. It gets her thinking about the places where a shotgun would go off. It also gets her thinking about the places she and her husband Peter have vacationed, such as Long Island, Tuscany, and Provence. Rebecca now lives in a small home desperately in need of work on a road, the name of which she does not know, in the middle of nowhere. She realizes that what she hears is not a gunshot, but an animal trap. She remembers the conversation with Jim Bates, a roofer...