At 6:30, which was when the national news began, my father raised the volume and adjusted the antennas. Usually I occupied myself with a book, but that night my father insisted that I pay attention.
“But there isn't any second half of myself waiting to plug in and make me whole. It's there. I'm already whole.”
“In ordinary detective novels you never see the consequences of what happens in a story in the next book. That you do in mine.”