Read Chapters 22-33
Content Summary for Teachers
Chapters 22-33 (1/3)
When Kya is nineteen, mistrustful of people after Tate's abandonment, she entirely separates from the social world. Still craving human connection, Kya watches Chase Andrews and his friends, now grown up, playing on the beach. Though Kya longs to join them, she hides, as the shame and fear of "being labeled as marsh trash kept her behind the oak tree." However, Chase Andrews catches Kya's eye. Desire and loneliness compel her to return to the beach to look for him the next day.
Hoping to run into Chase, Kya visits Jumpin's store more frequently because "being noticed by someone had lit a social cord" in her. At the...
