The narrator comes to realize she has drifted too far from her family, and needs to reconnect with them. She asks him how long he would wait to love again if she died, but he responds that this will never happen because they will both die together. She has a difficult time believing and accepting that her husband could still find her sexually attractive, and that her husband doesn’t want to be with anybody else.
In “Interesting Facts,” the narrator is a breast cancer survivor who struggles to adapt after having her breasts removed. Nonc makes peace with his father over the phone, and decides on a new start with Relle, beginning by visiting his father in LA. Nonc comes to learn his ex-wife has been arrested for being involved with a drug dealer who used her phone to transact a deal. At the same time, Nonc receives word that his father is dying of cancer out in Los Angeles after having stolen Nonc’s car to get out there. Nonc and his girlfriend, Nelle, care for the child and begin planning a life together while Nonc tries to find out what happened to his ex-wife. In “Hurricanes Anonymous,” Randall “Nonc” Richard, a UPS deliveryman, is stunned to discover in the days after Hurricane Katrina that his ex-wife has dropped off their son in his truck and disappeared. Charlotte tells the projection of Cobain that he should not commit suicide, that it would hurt her too much. He ultimately programs an image of Kurt Cobain to talk to Charlotte and keep her company. The narrator is worried that his wife may try to commit suicide. The narrator generates the image of the recently-assassinated President to ask him about life, death, and marriage. Her husband, meanwhile, develops a code that allows him to generate a holographic image of a person. To help keep her mind off of things, Charlotte listens to Nirvana for hours at a time.
In “Nirvana,” the narrator tends to his wife, Charlotte, who has been temporarily paralyzed following a bad flu. “Fortune Smiles” is a collection of six short stories by Adam Johnson which recounts the stories of people in unusual situations in life.
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