43 pages 1 hour read

Anne Cassidy

Looking for JJ

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2004

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Part 1, Chapters 8-10Chapter Summaries & Analyses

Part 1: “Alice Tully”

Part 1, Chapter 8 Summary

Alice helps Frankie to pack up his belongings to move back home for summer break. Jill calls to let her know that they’ve come up with a plan to lure attention away from Alice by suggesting that Jennifer Jones has been relocated to Holland to live with an English family there. After the phone call, Frankie is suspicious and accuses her of seeing someone else, but they reconcile.

 

When the modeling work dried up for good, Jennifer had to go live with her grandmother for a while. Her grandmother has a small apartment and a mean-tempered dog named Nelson, and she isn’t happy to have Jennifer with her. After several weeks, Carol returns with a present for Jennifer, but leaves shortly after. Jennifer is disappointed when she discovers that the present is only a newer version of her beloved doll Macy. When Nelson won’t stop growling at her, she hits him with the doll and kills him.

 

Back in the present, Frankie drives off with his dad and Alice calls Rosie. Alice reflects that “the big things of life […] were ingrained […] lived in the fibres of the brain, in the tissue and the blood.