Kathleen is still stranded at the party and Nick is still dead, but instead of her mother drinking she has been throwing herself in to community efforts to help prevent drunk driving and various other causes. Kathleen’s mother begins to drink while her father pretends as though nothing is wrong. Kathleen blames herself and in her moment of anger and blame isolates herself from Jen and anyone else once close to her.
Nick is involved in a devastating car accident that takes his life.
The weather conditions are fierce – snow settling on the icy roads. Stranded at a party because everyone, including her best friend Jen, is drunk, Kathleen calls her brother to pick her up. “We’re like ghost, possessing our own bodies for a time and moving on.” (92) Is that why I have two sets of memories? The memories I carry with me when I shift, and the memories of the body I’ve shifted into?”
“Okay, let’s say you’re right,” I say, “We’re shifting between multiple copies of ourselves.
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