Summary

Susan thinks about Arnold’s career and how, if he gets the new job, it means leaving their current home.

In Nocturnal Animals 13, Paula visits in September, and helps go through Laura and Helen’s things to throw out or give away. Tony continues to do his best to recover, even going to a party held by a colleague. Another colleague, a married French professor named Francesca Hooton, urges revenge against the killers. The police, meanwhile, report no leads in their investigation. A graduate student named Louise Germane expresses her sympathies to Tony at school. Slowly, over time, Tony begins to find hours where he does not constantly think about that night. Thanksgiving, Christmas, and the New Year come on. Tony struggles through. He meets a girl in her thirties at a bar, and she brings him home, but nothing happens as Tony is...