Summary

The next chapter is titled “algorithms.” Doyle describes her uncertainty about what to do in the aftermath of her husband’s infidelity, and how she eventually went online and used Google to answer the question “What should I do if my husband is a cheater but also an amazing dad?” (22).

The next chapter is titled “gatherings.” In present-tense narration, Doyle describes asking a group of her son’s teenaged friends if they are hungry. The boys eagerly answer yes, but the girls, as the author notes, check with each other first before one girl says no on their behalf. “The boys looked inside themselves,” Doyle comments, while “the girls looked outside themselves” (24). Doyle then says that “we forgot to how to know when we learned how to please. This,” she adds, “is why we live hungry” (24).

The next chapter is titled “rules.” Doyle...