53 pages 1 hour read

Jodi Picoult

Leaving Time

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

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Part 1, Chapters 5-8Chapter Summaries & Analyses

Part 1, Chapter 5 Summary: “Jenna”

Jenna forces Serenity to recount the dream she had about the girl’s mother. The psychic feels that Alice isn’t dead, and Jenna locks onto this hope for dear life. She urges Serenity to help her hunt for new clues. Grudgingly, the psychic drives her to the scene of her mother’s disappearance at the elephant sanctuary.

While they walk through the grounds, Serenity explains to Jenna that ghosts and spirits aren’t the same thing. Spirits have made peace with their earthly existence and have moved on to a higher dimension. Ghosts, on the other hand, are stuck because they have unfinished business in this world. Serenity describes ghosts as existing in a dimension layered over our own reality.

As they continue their walk, Jenna urges Serenity to hold her mother’s scarf to force a psychic connection. When Serenity recoils, the scarf floats away on a breeze. Jenna runs to retrieve it from a tree branch. As she tugs to free the scarf, another object falls to the ground—Alice Metcalf’s wallet.

Jenna proposes taking the wallet to the police so they can reopen the cold case file on Alice’s disappearance. The psychic balks at any further involvement, so Jenna enters the station alone, looking for

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