Summary

Chapter 4 opens with Cori writing in her journal about how she and Joe plan to take advantage of their father’s guilt and resulting intent to buy their love. He has already bought Cori’s dive team a wheatgrass juicer.

At what Amy believes is Talia’s apartment building in New York, there is no doorman to let her inside. She both texts and calls Talia but does not receive an answer. As she waits, Amy gets coffee, texts some friends, and then looks at a few young adult novels she has downloaded that she hopes will appeal to some of her more difficult readers. When the time gets close for the opening session of Amy’s library conference, she calls Talia again but still gets no answer. She wonders if perhaps Talia gave her the wrong address and decides she has to...