Endnote 134 — How Joelle got into Ennet House
Recounts the chain of luck that landed veiled Joelle van Dyne in Ennet House on "Interdependence Day" (p. 1025), 11/8 — the same day she arrived. After her overdose, a Brigham and Women's E.R. physician, moved by her unveiled face, phoned Pat Montesian, who runs Ennet House — he had treated her stroke in that same E.R. years before, and now sits on Ennet House's board — which "gotten Joelle into the House on the spot" (p. 1025), leaping her past dozens on the waiting list. A key dating and plot anchor.
What links here
- B&W E.R.: Joelle revived with Inderal and nitro; the physician sees her unveiled face and calls Pat Montesian
- Executive Director: the credential, the bay-window office, the Board tie
- Joelle enters Ennet House, leapfrogging the waiting list
- Joelle van Dyne enters the House post-overdose; the White Flag AA meeting
- Pat Montesian's directorship: the desperate-willingness intake test and the House's legal shield
- The D.T.-stroke: rock bottom and the Surrender
- The Joelle intake: a Saturday-night phone call leapfrogs the waiting list