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I Know This Much is True Chapter 48 Summary

How It All Goes Down

  • This chapter serves as kind of an epilogue. Let's see what happens, shall we?
  • Dr. Hume is charged with negligence due to the AIDS outbreak, while the Wequonnoc Indians become millionaires, including Dominick.
  • Dessa remarries Dominick and Joy dies, so they adopt Tyffanie.
  • Leo gets promoted to General Manager at Constantine Motors.
  • Ralph warms up to being Dominick's cousin, and Dominick starts teaching history again.
  • The house that Grandpa built becomes the Concettina T. Birdsey Women and Family Shelter; Lisa Sheffer's partner does the remodeling work
  • Dr. Patel praises Dominick's newfound wholeness.
  • Dominick now believes in the "roundness of things" (48.46), and says, "I know this much is true." (48.47). Finally.