50 pages 1 hour read

Jodi Picoult

Wish You Were Here

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

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Part 2, Chapters 12-13

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Part 2, Chapter 12 Summary

Diana finds out that she has been in the hospital with Covid, sedated and on a ventilator. It has only been 10 days, and her trip to the Galapagos was all in her head. She is now awake, but she’s isolated in the Covid ward, wearing a diaper and a feeding tube, and is unable to move. Finn comes to visit her again and tells her that she woke up at night with a headache, which progressed to a high fever and shallow breathing by the morning; she was then brought into the hospital. When Diana asks him about the Galapagos, Finn tells her that they had decided not to go.

Finn also tells her that she had to be intubated and almost died on her second day on the ventilator. He continued to visit her throughout, talking to her even when she was unconscious; in connection to this, Diana remembers the sporadic emails from Finn, as well as the dream she had of being trapped in a basement.

Diana stays in the ICU for a while, her lungs and body still weak. Finn and Diana talk more about their last conversation—Finn tells her that she was angry with him for suggesting that she go alone, and that they fought about it.

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