Surfacing Chapter 22 Summary

  • Now that the narrator has successfully guaranteed herself some "me" time at her family cabin, she just needs to figure out how to get back in (since her trio of "friends" locked up after themselves). She breaks in through a window.
  • Things get pretty abstract from here, but the bottom line appears to be that the narrator wants to try to connect with her deceased parents and "bring them back" (22.16).
  • She eats dinner. Then, she visits the outhouse. Along the way, she feels afraid and threatened by an unnamed force.
  • Later, she worries that the others are going to come back for her.
  • In the middle of the night, she wakes up with a sense that people are outside trying to get in, but she's too afraid (and unsure of who might actually be there) to "let" them.