Vivienne does not tell Willie the identity of the man, but she does give Willie a hint: Willie knows that she is descended from Templeton’s founder-Marmaduke Temple-through two lines of ancestry, but Willie’s connection to her father gives her a third even more obscure family link to Marmaduke. However, after Willie returns home, Vivienne says that she actually does know the identity of Willie’s father, and that it is a man in Templeton. Vivienne was sexually liberal when she was younger, and she told Willie that she did not know the identity of Willie’s father. Willie was raised by her single mother, Vivienne. She has returned to her hometown of Templeton, New York to wait and see whether she will be expelled from her graduate program. She had an affair with a married professor named Primus Dwyer, which led to an altercation between Dwyer’s wife and Willie. Wilhelmina “Willie” Upton is a 28-year-old archaeology graduate student at Stanford University. The town of Templeton, New York is based on the town of Cooperstown, New York. Some of the novel’s characters are based on characters created by American writer. The novel is preceded by a brief author’s note. The following version of this book was used to create this study guide: Groff, Lauren.
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