Joelle on the family's secrets
Kate Gompert’s bed sat unmade, a copy of some yellow paperback called Feeling Good open face-down on the mattress and starting to curl.
Context
Joelle cleaning the 5-Woman room: Kate characterized entirely by an object — David Burns's Feeling Good, the era's standard CBT-for-depression paperback, face-down, curling, going unread while its owner lies concussed on Prospect St.