- All's Well That Ends Well
- Antony and Cleopatra
- As You Like It
- The Comedy of Errors
- Coriolanus
- Cymbeline
- Hamlet
- Henry IV, Part 1
- Henry IV, Part 2
- Henry V
- Henry VI, Part 1
- Henry VI, Part 2
- Henry VI, Part 3
- Henry VIII
- Julius Caesar
- King John
- King Lear
- Love's Labor's Lost
- A Lover's Complaint
- Macbeth
- Measure for Measure
- The Merchant of Venice
- The Merry Wives of Windsor
- A Midsummer Night's Dream
- Much Ado About Nothing
- Othello
- Pericles
- The Rape of Lucrece
- Richard II
- Richard III
- Romeo and Juliet
- Shakespeare's Sonnets
- The Taming of the Shrew
- The Tempest
- Timon of Athens
- Titus Andronicus
- Troilus and Cressida
- Twelfth Night
- The Two Gentlemen of Verona
- Venus and Adonis
- The Winter's Tale
Towards the end of the novel, Jeanette considers returning home. After being prompted by her friends in her new city, she begins thinking about the family—and the world—she left behind. Though she has reinvented herself far away from the severe rules of her mother’s household and the violent punishments of her evangelical church, Jeanette’s demons have traveled with her. She considers her situation to be the “most tragic,” torn between the life she was forced to abandon and the one she has made for herself in the ruins of what she used to know. Jeanette, forever a storyteller, sees her…