15 year old Antigone (Tig) cannot forgive her stepfather Phillip for having her beloved cat Jacoby put down, even though Phillip is now dead. Enraged and frustrated by her mother’s grief, and her best friend’s compassion, she decides to ride her bike to her grandmother’s house. On the way, a black cat runs across in front of her, causing her to crash into a bus. As she slips into a coma, Jacoby appears and asks her to play a game with him. This game involves going back in time to work out how Tig and her various female relatives have coped with hardship. There is a problem as Tig is enjoying the game so much, there’s a danger she will never return.
p.71-75 Tig dreams she is her grandmother in an air raid shelter when the bombs fall very close ( )