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The Unraveling of Julia
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Chapters 46-60Chapter Summaries & Analyses
Content Warning: This section contains discussion of death, graphic violence, child abuse, and physical abuse, and emotional abuse.
Chapter 46 Summary
While she waits to be tested, Julia realizes she feels more comfortable in crowds now. The results of her test are positive for the same hallucinogen that the dog ingested. As she walks to the parking lot, she hears a voice saying, “I want Thy Heart” (240). She walks back into the building.
Chapter 47 Summary
Julia is able to get Gianluca’s room number and looks at a map, trying to figure out how to get there without seeing his family. When she gets to his floor, a nurse thinks Julia is Gianluca’s cousin from San Francisco. The nurse says Gianluca is in a medically induced coma to help his brain injury heal. The coma will probably last two weeks, but the nurse doesn’t know his prognosis.
Julia looks in Gianluca’s room from a window, but doesn’t go in because his parents are also in the room. She realizes she’s falling for him and thinks, “I, too, want Your Heart” (245) at him, hoping that they have a psychic connection and he can hear her.
Chapter 48 Summary
Julia drives home, checks on Bianco the dog, and hears banging upstairs. She remembers that she didn’t lock up when she rushed out to the site of the accident.
