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The Poppy Fields
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Chapter 16-Interlude 6Chapter Summaries & Analyses
Chapter Summary: This section of the guide includes discussion of illness, death, child death, substance use, and cursing.
Chapter 16 Summary
Sky gets a ride to Oklahoma City from Clara’s family. They are loud and enjoy singing. Sky doesn’t dislike them, but she’s happy to say goodbye when they drop her off. From there, she boards a bus headed to Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Chapter 17 Summary
It begins to rain heavily. Ava is sure that they are headed for disaster, and even Sasha becomes nervous. Ray would rather keep driving and momentarily wishes that he hadn’t agreed to take the two women, but when Sasha suggests that they stop at a nearby motel, he agrees.
The motel is filthy, and Ava decides that the bathroom is probably too dirty to take a shower in. Even PJ seems nervous. Ava wishes that she were home in Kansas. The three sit talking, and Sasha wonders if she can open up to them about why she’s not getting married.
Chapter 18 Summary
Dean, Sasha’s fiancé, was her next-door neighbor. A children’s piano teacher who also performed his own show, he was instantly appealing to Sasha. Their romance bloomed, they got engaged, and the future seemed set.
Then, Sasha got cold feet—she wasn’t sure if Dean was “the one.
