This Book Will Bury Me

In a note to her readers, Janeway “Jane” Sharp explains that she knows they want answers. They want to know more about the story as well as why images of her and several others, kneeling with their hands behind their backs while being held at gunpoint by the FBI, were splashed all over the media. She is ready and willing to tell the story, in part because she is familiar with the human desire to organize chaotic facts into linear narratives. She understands that her readers share this impulse, but she will tell the story in her own way.

In 2022, Jane transfers to the University of Central Florida from community college and feels instantly out of place. She is anxious, introverted, and two years older than her peers. She struggles to make friends. When Jane’s father suddenly dies of a heart attack a year later, it crushes her.

Jane returns home, where her mother is in a state of shock. She and Jane’s father met while they were young and in the Navy, and they had a long, happy marriage. Jane, too, is in a state of shock. She adored her father and does not know what she will do without him.