In a flashback in this novel, the “agency clown” Buz leers “you gonna write some poor-nography together!” after the protagonist meets a prematurely-graying writer while working at an auto parts warehouse. A character in this book hangs herself after being tricked into thinking her children have been lost, though they have (-5[1])just been staying with (-5[1])a relative in Baltimore. In this novel's section “The Fight,” the protagonist seeks (-5[2])to reach her (15[1]-5[1])husband (*) Kevin in Maine (-5[1])learning that her letters never reached him. The line (10[1])"I lost my (10[1]-5[1])arm on my last trip home" opens the prologue of this (10[1])novel, much of which is set at the home of the protagonist's ancestors Alice Greenwood and Rufus Weylin. The writer Dana Franklin time-travels (10[2])to an antebellum (10[1])plantation (10[2])in, (10[1])for (10[6])10 points, what slave narrative-inspired Octavia Butler novel? ■END■ (0[1])