44 pages • 1 hour read
Tatiana de RosnaySarah’s Key
Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006A modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality Study Guides with detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, and more.
Sections 68-82Chapter Summaries & Analyses
Section 68 Summary
Bertrand postpones the move, but he and Julia are only amiable to one another. They don’t talk about anything important. She wonders what life is like for Bertrand now.
Then she wonders about William, and what he did with the news about his grandmother.
Section 69 Summary
Julia is in the nearly-ready apartment, wondering how she can live where Sarah once did. The phone rings. It’s the nursing home. Mamé has had a stroke.
Julia laments Mamé and cannot reach Bertrand. She tries her sisters-in-law. They know that Bertrand was seeing Amélie, his ex. Julia feels frustrated that she didn’t know this was happening.
William knocks on the door. “I need to talk to you,” he says (252). He explains that he flew back to the States to see his dad. His dad had a key from his grandmother in a drawer, along with a drawing of Michel, Sarah’s brother, with some French scribbled.
Julia asks him to come along to Mamé’s, saying, “There’s someone I want you to see” (254).
Section 70 Summary
In the hospital room, Mamé is recovering, but not expected to live very long. Edouard inquires about William and says that he wants to meet him: “Sarah Starzynski’s son,” he announces to the room (256).
