Who Am I
I am the seventh Peace child, raised as Perfect for the first eight years of my life.
Who is Paul/Perfect?
How many children did Gus and Emma Jean have?
What is seven?
What did Emma Jean claim she was going through when Gus thought they would have no more children?
What is menopause?
What river becomes an important place of cleansing and reflection in the novel?
What is the Jordan River?
Who is the minister at the Peace family’s church?
Who is Reverend Lindsey?
I am Emma Jean’s mother, whose treatment of her deeply shaped the woman she became.
Who is Mae Helen?
What was the Peace family’s original surname?
What is Pace?
Why did rain mean something special to Gus?
It let him cry without anyone seeing his tears.
What did Bartimaeus forgive God for during his time at the river with Gus?
For not giving him sight.
What song does Emma Jean sing in church after Paul returns as a boy?
What is “Amazing Grace”?
I am the midwife who knew the truth about Perfect from birth.
Who is Henrietta?
Which letter was added to Pace to form a new name?
What is E?
What traumatic object injured Emma Jean when she was a child?
What is a cast-iron skillet?
What phrase describes Gus and Bartimaeus after they expose their emotions to one another?
“They were not ashamed.”
Who defends Paul after he is mocked outside the church?
Who is Authorly?
I am Paul’s blind brother, known for seeing people in ways others often could not.
Who is Bartimaeus?
Which son’s name came from Gus trying to write “Arthur Lee”?
Who is Authorly?
Why was Perfect’s eighth birthday especially important to Emma Jean?
Because Emma Jean’s own eighth birthday had been painful and uncelebrated.
What does the rain symbolize for Gus besides weather?
Emotional release, protection, or freedom to cry.
Who repeatedly senses that something is “not right” about Perfect when Perfect is a baby?
Who is Sugar Baby?
I am the presence Emma Jean begins hearing when buried truths and guilt finally catch up with her.
Who is Silence?
Which son later leaves Swamps Creek to pursue life elsewhere after Emma Jean’s death?
Who is Mister?
What color decoration later connects Perfect’s birthday celebration with Emma Jean’s own birthday party?
What is yellow
What final act does Paul perform with Olivia, the doll from his childhood?
He burns it.
What organization do Mister and Johnny Ray help establish locally?
What is the NAACP?