![]() ![]() ![]() After all, she reasons, she was the one who insisted on stopping at the gas station (to use the bathroom) in the first place. As for their 8-year-old daughter Emma, she blames herself for her brother’s death. Grace Learner has sunk into a state of anguished numbness, unable to work and unable to forgive her husband, whom she blames for failing to keep Josh safe. ![]() Ethan, who teaches English at a small New England college, vacillates between rage at the police for not doing more to catch his son’s killer and sharp, aching grief, as he replays memories of his son in his head. The Learners’ lives, meanwhile, have shattered into a before and after. Years before, when his wife Ruth announced she was leaving him, he attacked her with his fists and broke the jaw of Sam, who was trying to keep his parents apart.ĭwight tells Sam, who was asleep in the car when the accident occurred, that they hit a dog on their way home, and he puts the car, with a telltale bit of Josh’s jacket caught on its smashed right headlight, into the garage and shuts the door. ![]() While Dwight toys with the idea of allowing himself to be caught by the police, he knows, as a lawyer, that his own dubious past will be held against him. Dwight is equally stunned that in a brief second he has become a murderer, the inadvertent thief of a child’s life, a boy the same age as his own son, Sam. ![]()
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