Chapter 55 The Surgery
The surgery was scheduled for a Tuesday in July, a lumpectomy followed by an assessment of the lymph nodes, which the surgeon — a measured, competent woman named Dr. Reyes who had the specific calm of someone who performed this exact procedure several times a week and had long since converted her ow...
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Chapters
1. Chapter 1 What I Gave Away
2. Chapter 2 The Shape of a Woman Disappearing
3. Chapter 3 Background
4. Chapter 4 Things We Name After They're Already Over
5. Chapter 5 The Night Everything Counted
6. Chapter 6 The Architecture of Leaving
7. Chapter 7 The Divorce Season
8. Chapter 8 What Sebastian Sent
9. Chapter 9 The Call from Ria
10. Chapter 10 The Warmth of a Room
11. Chapter 11 The New Calendar
12. Chapter 12 What the Camera Knows
13. Chapter 13 The Forge Plays Atlanta
14. Chapter 14 Columbus in August
15. Chapter 15 Forward
16. Chapter 16 Portugal
17. Chapter 17 The Christkindlmarket
18. Chapter 18 The Interview
19. Chapter 19 What Alan Said
20. Chapter 20 The Long Season
21. Chapter 21 The Weight of a Name
22. Chapter 22 Lily Walks Into the Ocean
23. Chapter 23 The Business of Becoming
24. Chapter 24 What Lily Knows
25. Chapter 25 After the Last Whistle
26. Chapter 26 The Playoffs
27. Chapter 27 The Cup Final
28. Chapter 28 December, Again
29. Chapter 29 The Book
30. Chapter 30 The Transfer
31. Chapter 31 The Proof
32. Chapter 32 What the Book Made
33. Chapter 33 The Question
34. Chapter 34 How We Told People
35. Chapter 35 The Ring
36. Chapter 36 What December Holds
37. Chapter 37 Adaeze
38. Chapter 38 The New Year
39. Chapter 39 Before the Wedding
40. Chapter 40 January Light
41. Chapter 41 The Date
42. Chapter 42 The Morning
43. Chapter 43 The Park in June
44. Chapter 44 The Reception
45. Chapter 45 What Comes After
46. Chapter 46 The Second Book
47. Chapter 47 Lily at Five
48. Chapter 48 What Sebastian Builds
49. Chapter 49 The Long View
50. Chapter 50 Famous/Infamous
51. Chapter 51 The Letter to Imara
52. Chapter 52 The Thing About Mirrors
53. Chapter 53 The Academy's First Cohort Graduates
54. Chapter 54 My Mother's Diagnosis
55. Chapter 55 The Surgery
56. Chapter 56 The Lymph Node Results
57. Chapter 57 The Third Book
58. Chapter 58 What Sebastian Said About the Imprint
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