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The Identicals
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Chapters 25-30Chapter Summaries & Analyses
Content Warning: This section of the guide includes discussion of illness, death, child death, death by suicide, substance use, sexual content, and emotional abuse.
Chapter 25 Summary: “Nantucket”
During a summer heat wave, Bonnie Atkinson, Ramsay’s secretary, is intrigued by the new privacy panels her boss has installed in his office. She spies on him and sees him reading an old obituary for an infant named Julian Wyatt Cruise, whose parents are listed as Wyatt Cruise and Tabitha Frost.
At the ERF boutique, Caylee deals with an irritable Harper. Emma enters the store and argues with Caylee when she’s asked to leave her coffee outside. Caylee recognizes Emma as the girl who betrayed Ainsley. Caylee catches Emma shoplifting on a security camera and calls the police. Emma’s father, Dutch, arrives to aggressively defend her. Caylee recognizes Dutch as the man who had previously groped her at a restaurant job, an incident that led to her being unjustly fired.
Chapter 26 Summary: “Martha’s Vineyard”
In mid-July, Franklin secretly renovates Billy Frost’s house for Tabitha, using off-island workers to maintain privacy so Sadie won’t know what he’s doing. When his parents summon him to a family dinner, Franklin lies about his whereabouts. During the dinner, he observes that his sister, Sadie, appears emaciated and unwell.
Three days later, Franklin’s carpenter, Tad, is involved in a minor parking lot accident. Harper’s ex, Drew, arrives and overhears that Tad is working at the Frost house.
