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 just been staying with a relative in Baltimore. In this novel's section “The Fight,” the protagonist seeks to reach her husband (*) Kevin in Maine learning that her letters never reached him. The line ■END■