Vivien's Time Period
This is the year of the Spanish flu.
What is 1919?
This man has been interested in pursuing Vivien for quite some time throughout her portion of the story.
Who is Sebastian?
This is Peter's nickname for her.
What is Clairezy?
This person hosted a party at their house for the presidential inauguration.
Who is Dot?
This young child was the sunshine of Napa Valley.
Who is Pamela?
Vivien's obituaries during this time period were famous in part because they did not contain these.
What are "dates?"
What is amnesia?
Peter is very rude to these people whenever he and Claire are out.
Who are the waiters/waitresses?
This complicated matters during the Presidential inauguration and some were concerned it may be postponed.
What is a blizzard?
The method Lotte chose to end her life.
What is drowning?
This event coincided with the Spanish flu.
What is World War I?
The number of years Vivien spent searching for David.
What is 13?
The job Claire had prior to being married.
What is an airline stewardess?
What is white?
The historical even that ended David's Life.
What is the Earthquake of 1906?
This popular lady of etiquette was quote before each chapter.
Who was Emily Post?
This little library vixen points Vivien in the direction of pursuing an abandoned unknown man in a hospital.
Who is Kay Pendleton?
Claire gives her Mother-in-law poems from this famous poet.
Who is Robert Frost?
The inauguration date.
The person Vivien actually encounters in her old apartment in San Francisco when she returns there.
Who is Duncan MacGregor?
This is the author Vivien saw before he chartered a yacht from San Francisco to wander the Pacific.
Who was Robert Louis Stevenson?
This particular bird is the bird Sebastian thought of when he said Vivien's name and then led to her nickname "Birdy."
What is a canary?
The artist that Claire pretended to like when she hung out with Miles but pretended she went to an art museum.
Who is Remington?
The color Jackie wore to the Presidential inauguration.
What is taupe?
This is (approximately) the statement that Birdy last uttered to Vivien.
What is "Don't waste your one beautiful life?"