![]() ![]() The next day, she learns from Willie that Hearne is dead. Josie is ashamed of her mother and wants to believe that her father is a respectable man like Hearne. Josie keeps the check he writes for the books and adds him to a list she keeps of possible fathers, since she does not know her own. Hearne states that he had a childhood like Copperfield and Josie. Josie is flattered that he thinks she is a college student, and they bond over their shared love of David Copperfield Mr. While working at the bookshop, Josie assists a handsome and rich tourist named Forrest Hearne. Josie burned him with hot coffee for putting her mom in the hospital the last time he was in town, and he threatened to take revenge on her. Josie grows worried upon learning that Cincinnati, a criminal and her mom’s off-and-on lover, is returning to New Orleans. She lives above Marlowe Bookshop, where she also works at Willie’s house as a housekeeper. She wants to leave New Orleans to start her life over. Now 17, Josie deals daily with stares and name-calling from those in her neighborhood because of her mom’s work. Her mom, a prostitute, returns to New Orleans to work for Willie, a brothel madam. Josie Moraine, the novel’s first-person narrator, was seven years old when she moved with her mother to New Orleans from Detroit. This study guide uses the 2013 edition published by Speak. ![]()
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