52 pages • 1 hour read
Matthew QuickA modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality Study Guides with detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, and more.
This letter from Leonard’s future wife, A, describes their active sex life, which contrasts teenaged Leonard’s virginity.
A describes their life working and swimming outdoors at Outpost 37. In the future, Leonard fights in a war and attempts to escape the new government, the North American Land Collective. The state imprisons him at a labor camp and sends him to a testing site where A works. She reads Hamlet to the silent Leonard, who recites the play back to A. They fall in love while daily trading lines from the play.
A’s father, a powerful veteran, arranges for his daughter and Leonard to join him at Outpost 37. The couple marry and have a daughter named S. A describes how she and Leonard kiss whenever they see shooting stars outside the lighthouse. She pleads with him to “hold on” (77).
Leonard describes his friend Baback, a small Iranian American boy who toted a violin case throughout his sophomore year of high school. During gym class their sophomore year, Asher Beal hits Baback in the head with a ball. Several students follow suit. Asher strikes Baback into the bleachers.
By Matthew Quick