Summary

In Chapter 16, Bea was up early. She couldn’t sleep first because of the memories of the party at Celia’s house and second because she’d had a dream about Tuck. She met Tuck during a poetry class. He’d died three years ago, after having a stroke that took his voice. They hadn’t begun their sexual relationship until after Bea was no longer his student. He bought the apartment on the Upper West Side in which she now lived so they could have a place to meet. She asked him not to leave his wife because she needed solitude. She’d finally given up on her coming-of-age novel she’d been trying to write when he died. She had asked for a loan on "the nest" at that point but she’d gotten notice from Tuck...