Summary

In Part I, “The Opposite of Nothing,” one July night in Vacca Vale, Indiana, Blandine Watkins “exits her body” in Apartment C4 of the Rabbit Hutch (3). At 18, she has spent “most of her life,” longing for this moment (3). Her obsessions with the mystics inspired it. As she exits, she becomes no one and everything.

In “All Together, Now,” in C12, the man living below Blandine looks at pornography. In C8, Hope worries she is a bad mother. She had a life and identity before “she was a mother” (7). The pregnancy and birth ravaged her body. Since the birth, she has been terrified of “her baby’s eyes” (9). When her husband Anthony gets home, he tells her Elsie Blitz, “the star” of her favorite show Meet the Neighbors, has died (11).

In C6, elderly couple Ida and...