Stella
The disease that Stella and Kennedy's mother Adele suffers from at the end of her life
What is Alzheimers?
The town that Stella and Desiree grew up in and Desiree eventually returned to.
What is Mallard?
This is what Jude shows Kennedy that causes tension and fighting in the final few chapters.
What is a picture of Stella and Kennedy as kids?
This is the operation that Jude helped finance, encourage, and gave Reese what he needed to get it
What is Top Surgery?
This concept is a key part of this novel. It has to do with self perception, identity, mental wellbeing, and how we choose to let the world see us.
What is passing?
Stella selfishly blames her for causing tension with her daughter
Who is Jude?
The name of Desirees life partner and former bounty hunter
Who is Early?
Kennedy travels across here to find herself after a major fight with Stella about the photograph shown to her by Jude.
What is Europe?
The graduate schooling that Jude pursues in Minneapolis
What is Medical School?
This is what the town of Mallard has been renamed to after many years.
What is Palmetto?
Stella gives this to Early after he helped her sneak out early in the morning.
What is her wedding ring?
This is the job Desiree takes at the end of the book in another town, regretting she didn't leave Mallard sooner like Stella.
What is a Call Center?
The place that Kennedy has a deep conversation with Stella about their identity at the end of the book after Kennedy arrives home
Where is the car?
This is the unique wording that Jude uses to tell Kennedy about the death of Adele
What is "Your Grandma Died"?
Reese is able to get a viable prescription for this in Minneapolis and it is much healthier than alternatively taking steroids which he was doing
What is Testosterone?
This is the old aged liquor she drinks on Adele's porch with Desiree and has a very open heart to heart conversation about their past and passing
What is Gin?
The city that Desiree and her husband move to at the end of the book
What is Houston?
The name of Kennedy's boyfriend near the end of the book who she fights with about her identity.
Who is Frantz?
The Newspaper that Reese works at as a Photographer
What is the "Minnesota Daily Star"?
This is the final; scene and how the book ends
What is Jude and Reese dancing in the river?
After reconciling with her mother in Mallard Stella breaks down when she is unable to remember how to complete this task
What is gutting a fish?
The name of the resturant run by Desiree later in her life.
What is Lou's Egg House?
The career Kennedy chooses begrudgingly after her acting career dissipates. She complains it doesn't suit her or feel personal.
What is a Real Estate Agent?
Desiree sees a picture in Jude's apartment that she cannot place. We the audience know who she is looking at intently in that picture.
Who is Kennedy?
A regular at Lou's Egg House who is an alcoholic veteran and according to Desiree is never sober
Who is Marvin Landry?