50 pages 1 hour read

Promise Me Sunshine

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

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Part 1, Chapters 9-15Chapter Summaries & Analyses

Content Warning: This section of the guide includes discussion of illness, death, mental illness, suicidal ideation, and substance use.

Part 1: “After”

Part 1, Chapter 9 Summary

Lenny texts Miles to tell him that she hates her life and is crying at a laundromat, and Miles tells her that he will meet her at the studio apartment. To distract her, Miles takes Lenny to a boat to check off an item on her list: “Find a big boat and do the Titanic thing” (93). They go to the bow of the boat, and Miles holds Lenny as she sticks her arms out. They laugh about not knowing what they are meant to do, and Lenny feels briefly happy as she checks off another item on the list. As they wander through Lower Manhattan later, Lenny learns more about Miles’s past love life and starts to remember that not everything in life is depressing.

Part 1, Chapter 10 Summary

When Reese gets home from work one night, she has a tense exchange with Miles, and it is clear to Lenny that he is trying to help Reese with her grieving process as well, but she won’t let him in. Lenny goes to Miles’s apartment a few hours later and tries to comfort him for a change. He reveals that his current apartment used to belong to Reese and Ainsley, but they moved in with Carp when he got sick.

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