Chapter 53 A Very Small Favor
Sorel took off his gloves to shake hands, which is how I knew he wanted something.
He didn’t get a handshake. He got Dad on the porch step with a pipe wrench held down by his thigh like he’d found it there, and me beside him with a bullhorn I’d forgotten to put down. Behind us the screen door opene...
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Chapters
1. Chapter 1 The Boy Who Got Up Wrong
2. Chapter 2 Rules Nobody Explains
3. Chapter 3 Cold Enough to Hurt
4. Chapter 4 What They Do to the Records
5. Chapter 5 The Line Nobody Wanted
6. Chapter 6 Garlic Is a Lie
7. Chapter 7 The Low Table
8. Chapter 8 Four Seconds
9. Chapter 9 Vital Signs
10. Chapter 10 Witnessed
11. Chapter 11 A Very Good Mother
12. Chapter 12 Appetite
13. Chapter 13 Bus Stop
14. Chapter 14 The Comfortable Place
15. Chapter 15 Milk
16. Chapter 16 Milk First
17. Chapter 17 Alive and Angry
18. Chapter 18 A Bad Deal
19. Chapter 19 Five Hundred Immortals
20. Chapter 20 Somewhere With a Rink
21. Chapter 21 Duluth
22. Chapter 22 The Torn Page
23. Chapter 23 Eighteen Hundred Miles
24. Chapter 24 Kettle Hill
25. Chapter 25 Say It and Mean It
26. Chapter 26 The Scoreboard
27. Chapter 27 Collateral
28. Chapter 28 Plus One
29. Chapter 29 What the Building Remembers
30. Chapter 30 Milk First
31. Chapter 31 The Bag by the Bench
32. Chapter 32 Whose Blood
33. Chapter 33 Yes, in April
34. Chapter 34 The Sixty-Second Customer
35. Chapter 35 Marsh, D.
36. Chapter 36 The Sleeper Cab
37. Chapter 37 Sandbags
38. Chapter 38 Twenty-Nine Postcards
39. Chapter 39 Say It Like You Mean It
40. Chapter 40 The Plate
41. Chapter 41 Twenty-Seven Cards
42. Chapter 42 Sixteen Hours
43. Chapter 43 Soup
44. Chapter 44 Guest Right
45. Chapter 45 Point of Order
46. Chapter 46 Tuesdays
47. Chapter 47 The Registrar
48. Chapter 48 Every Last One
49. Chapter 49 Read the Margins
50. Chapter 50 Salt
51. Chapter 51 Table for Twelve
52. Chapter 52 Paper Is Not a Voice
53. Chapter 53 A Very Small Favor
54. Chapter 54 The Notary
55. Chapter 55 Real Words
56. Chapter 56 Seen to Their Cars
57. Chapter 57 Ransom Note
58. Chapter 58 The Third Stair
59. Chapter 59 Live
60. Chapter 60 Hammond Street
61. Chapter 61 The Other Half
62. Chapter 62 Sit on His Feet
63. Chapter 63 Who Wants It
64. Chapter 64 Four Seconds Apiece
65. Chapter 65 Load-Bearing
66. Chapter 66 Pencil
67. Chapter 67 Item One
68. Chapter 68 Standing
69. Chapter 69 Installments
70. Chapter 70 What Madam Left Out
71. Chapter 71 Daylight
72. Chapter 72 Notice, Madam
73. Chapter 73 Pushaw
74. Chapter 74 The Flat W
75. Chapter 75 Mãe
76. Chapter 76 Hands Where You Can See Them
77. Chapter 77 Tired People
78. Chapter 78 Room 214
79. Chapter 79 Two Hands
80. Chapter 80 Until Done
81. Chapter 81 Seven-Thirty
82. Chapter 82 The Single Window
83. Chapter 83 What He Asks
84. Chapter 84 Lucien Says It
85. Chapter 85 Waiting to Be Asked
86. Chapter 86 The Man Who Carries Her Cap
87. Chapter 87 Thursday
88. Chapter 88 A Colleague
89. Chapter 89 A Cup of Tea
90. Chapter 90 Seven-Oh-Five
91. Chapter 91 Ninety Years
92. Chapter 92 Flat
93. Chapter 93 No
94. Chapter 94 Seven-Forty
95. Chapter 95 Refused
96. Chapter 96 The Footnotes
97. Chapter 97 Out Loud
98. Chapter 98 Chains
99. Chapter 99 Seven-Oh-Six
100. Chapter 100 Item Seven
101. Chapter 101 Gray Is Not a Color
102. Chapter 102 The Wrong Kind of Box
103. Chapter 103 Choke
104. Chapter 104 The Red Line
105. Chapter 105 Eleven
106. Chapter 106 Night Shift
107. Chapter 107 Nineteen
108. Chapter 108 Anger Gets a Chair
109. Chapter 109 Back of the Coat
110. Chapter 110 May I Ask
111. Chapter 111 A No in Advance
112. Chapter 112 Rule Seven
113. Chapter 113 Ten Minutes
114. Chapter 114 Quorum
115. Chapter 115 Article Nine
116. Chapter 116 Eight
117. Chapter 117 Hands
118. Chapter 118 Dated Today
119. Chapter 119 The Gutter
120. Chapter 120 A Vow of Silence
121. Chapter 121 Carry the One
122. Chapter 122 Item Fifteen
123. Chapter 123 Fellowship Hall
124. Chapter 124 Flat
125. Chapter 125 The Face of the Maker
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