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“Not only does a shared pool help individuals make better choices, but since meaning is shared, people willingly act on whatever decisions they make… [people don’t] buy into their final choice simply because they were involved; they buy in because they understand.”

Narrator states that in her younger years she contemplated suicide on more than one occasion. She now worries about Stacy, who is growing up connected 24/7, as are all her peers.

Crucial Conversation: A discussion between two or more people where the results have a major impact on one’s quality of life and where stakes are high, opinions vary, and emotions run strong.

Ben is collecting water samples from nearby creeks for a science project, leading to one of the most coherent sections of the novel thus far in which the narrator laments widespread pollution and American historical tragedies associated with bodies of water, including the Gnadenhutten Massacre and the Sand Creek Massacre, led by John Evans, namesake of her hometown of Evanston, Illinois.