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Finding Grace
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Chapters 19-26Chapter Summaries & Analyses
Content Warning: This section of the guide includes discussion of death.
Chapter 19 Summary
Honor had a long, hard labor with Chloe. However, her desire for a second child began as soon as she gave birth.
In the present, Grace gradually moves in with Tom and Henry. Tom realizes how happy he is “to belong to someone again” after Grace unpacks her clothes (233). That same day, they work together to change the wall hangings. Tom panics when Grace removes a picture from the wall, and he sees lines from the Baudelaire poem written on its back in Honor’s hand. He realizes things have gone too far and wishes he’d destroyed the donation center letter and Grace’s donor CD months ago.
On Grace’s birthday, Tom and Henry surprise her with breakfast in bed and a few gifts. Tom is worried when Grace doesn’t seem to like the Cartier watch he got her. Grace grows distant, insisting she never told Tom when her birthday was and demanding to know how he knew. He lies and says he saw it on her license.
That evening, Tom, Grace, and Henry go out for a birthday dinner. When another customer refers to Grace as Henry’s mother, Tom corrects her. An offended Grace leaves the restaurant. Outside, she and Tom get into an argument.
