43 pages • 1 hour read
A Love Letter to Whiskey
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Prologue-Chapter 6Chapter Summaries & Analyses
Content Warning: This section of the guide includes discussion of rape, addiction, and substance use.
Prologue Summary: “Relapse”
The novel’s narrator, Brecks “B” Kennedy, recounts how she opened the door to find her close friend and past romantic partner, Jamie Shaw. She calls Jamie “Whiskey” and compares her feelings for him to an alcohol addiction.
Chapter 1 Summary: “First Taste”
B first sees Jamie as a teenager. She is running with her best friend, Jenna Kamp, and while trying to alert Jenna to the fact that there is an attractive boy running beside them, B and Jamie collide. B all but falls in love at first sight, but Jamie is attracted to Jenna instead. B is used to other boys falling for her beautiful friend, but this time, it particularly hurts her. A week later, Jenna and Jamie start dating, and B starts to become his friend.
B grew up relatively happy, believing that her separated parents were good friends before and after they dated. However, the summer before her sophomore year of high school, her mother accidentally told her that B’s father scared away all the men who tried to date her and that B was the product of him raping her. When B approached her father about it afterward, he was unapologetic and angry that her mother had told her.
