Fincis finds a friend.

We move forward in time to 1971 on Cape Cod, where we meet Francis, our second protagonist. Growing up Catholic, a stranger and an orphan, we join Francis as he navigates some of the early challenges of his life as an adopted child.

Meghan makes her cross-country odyssey, dependent, as always, on the kindness of strangers.

After an ugly confrontation and heartrending loss, Meghan leaps bravely, and a little blindly, into her future.

Meghan makes the connection she had been hoping for, but things don't go as she had planned. Instead she has to rely once again on her friend Triese for shelter and comfort, as she plans her next steps. When we leave her, she is preparing for a difficult discussion with her da.

The inaugural episode of A Writer Reads, begins with a brief description of the project, a little biographical information about the author, and a sketch of the manuscript from which I will be reading. Then the reading begins with Meghan at her mother's gravesite, and ends with Meghan cold and alone, and wondering what comes next.