Plot Introduction
Kelly Kelleher, a twenty-six-year-old magazine writer, meets a United States Senator on whom she wrote her thesis at a Fourth of July party. "The Senator," as he is referred to in the novel (and transparently an analogue for Ted Kennedy at Chappaquiddick), plans to take her to his hotel for a romantic rendezvous, but a car accident plunges them into a swampy marsh. The story is primarily told in prolepsis.
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