BEg2 chapter 4 - summary part one

[Mark Kohut]

C'mon, admit it. Emotherapist, playing with all the emo meanings in the
culture, is a pretty great verbal creation, no?

On Mon, Nov 15, 2021 at 2:16 AM Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Pages: 42 to 52 (Nook)
>
> Novelis Personae:
> Maxine
> Shawn - the emotherapist
> Taliban
> Ziggy
> Nigel (classmate of Ziggy) and his sitter
> Otis
> Fiona
> Disrespect (superhero on tv)
> The Contaminator (superhero on tv)
>
> Emma Levin -
> Krav Maga instructor, possibly ex-Mossad
>
> Naftali - ex-Mossad boyfriend of Emma Levin
>
> Vyrva -
>
> Gabriel Ice and his wife Tallis; Lucas, Vyrva’s husband, and his business
> partner Justin (as mentioned by Vyrva)
>
> The Princess Di Beanie Baby
>
> Mrs McElmo - what Ziggy calls Vyrva (well-mannered kid)
>
>
>
> Locations -
> - Shawn’s emotherapy office in “a walk-up near the Holland Tunnel approach”
>
> (That’s in Lower Manhattan, near Canal Street and Hudson Square; the
> Holland Tunnel goes west out of Manhattan to Jersey City.)
>
> (Does she take the subway or a cab?)
>
> - The Otto Kugelblitz School briefly, only to pick up Otis and Fiona
>
> - Maxine’s apartment
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