When She Was Rachel
The name of the boy Rachel falls in love with in high school.
Who is Peter?
The most important thing to Rachel's Aunts?
What is money?
How James earned money as a teenager.
What are, sold and stole drugs, and robbed old women of their purses.
Where all of her money goes.
What is education?
Rachel finds this out about Peter when she returns from NY.
What is a bracelet?
The treatment of Rachel as she stayed in New York with Mameh's family.
What is, "They did not want to be bothered with her...she was the poor cousin from the South with the crippled mother."
James used these to deal with the pain of his Daddy's death.
What are marijuana, wine, cutting school, and forging his report cards?
The only man James knew as a father.
Who is Hunter Jordan?
The reason Rachel would not attend her HS Graduation.
What is, "She felt guilty entering a church because she was still her parents' daughter,"?
This person discovers Ruth is pregnant.
Who is Mameh?
Ruth's second husband.
Who is Hunter Jordan?
The reasons Jack sends James to the corner in Kentucky.
What are, "So he can see what his life could be like if he continues to fail out or quit school,"?
Stroke
What is the cause of Hunter Jordan's death?
The irony of Hunter Jordan spending his life savings on the St. Albans house James grew up in.
What is he only lived there on weekends?
Two reasons she is sent to live in New York for the summer.
What are: To protect her and Peter, and so no one in Suffolk County would know she was pregnant.
Ruth and her husband's two top priorities?
What are religion and education.
He gave James the advice he needed in Kentucky.
Who is Chicken Man?
Religion and Jesus
What are the things that keep Ruth from going insane?
The three reasons James left Kentucky.
What are The Chicken Man's death, Jack's advice, and his mother needed him?
What is, "So she could graduate HS"?
Ruth loves this the most about life in New York.
What is, "Everyone is too busy to care about race and religion?
The reason James was addicted to drugs.
What is, "He was addicted because it prevented him from feeling any pain,"?
How the reader knows Rachel is "dead."
How Rachel's family in New York deals with their feelings.
What is they sweep them under the rug?