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Summary: Chapter 19: In the Beginning. When the semester ends, Tara returns home for the summer. She does not yet know whether she will be able to return to college in the fall; her grades need to be good enough to earn her a scholarship. Tara is eager to return to working at the local grocery store in order to earn money, but her father ...
Family, Abuse, and Entrapment. Summary. Analysis. At eleven, Tara longs to get away from the junkyard, but she is too young to get a job like her older sister. Still, she goes into town and visits the local gas station owned by a kindly couple named Papa Jay and Myrna Moyle, asking if she can put up flyers advertising her babysitting services.
Dad has threatened to “disown” Tyler if he presses the Shawn issue any further. More than that, Shawn has called Tyler and threatened to get him kicked out of the family “in two minutes”—and advised him to “just ask Tara” if he needs any proof of Shawn’s power. As Tara half-listens to Tyler, unable to pull herself away from ...
Summary. Analysis. Tara arrives in England at King’s College, Cambridge and is positively overwhelmed by its grandeur. She has a room of her own there and eats breakfast each morning in a great Gothic hall. She feels out of place, though, whenever she spends time with her privileged BYU classmates, who have all bought new sophisticated ...
Tara is studying to retake the ACT, hoping she can improve her score. The summer before Tara turns seventeen, Shawn is in a motorcycle accident. Tara is the only family member present and phones her father to ask what she should do. Gene tells her to bring Shawn home. Tara loads Shawn into the car, intending to drive him home, but at the last ...
Summary: Chapter 33: Sorcery of Physics. Before Tara leaves, Audrey asks her to stay and help her confront Shawn, but Tara refuses. By now, Tara is in a relationship with a man named Drew, who is also studying at Cambridge. She is immersed in her doctoral research, which will focus on the connection between Mormon theology and other ...
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While Tara is struggling to keep up with her doctoral work, Tyler confronts Gene. At first, Tyler’s efforts seem promising, but they soon backfire, as they did for Tara. Gene yells at him, Shawn ...
