Due to a mix of madness, shifting timelines, and slight production errors, early printings of Molly have the following typos/errors that have been fixed in the corrected edition of the book (4th printing and later). For my sanity, I have listed them below.
Back cover: Attribution to front cover photo should be to Molly Brodak, not me
Pg 32 –
“Virginia University” should be “West Virginia University”
Pg 52 –
Insert “later” into “I was out of town a few months on a reading tour…”
So that the sentence begins “I was out of town a few months later on a reading tour…”
Pg 55 –
Replace “throw” with “coin purse” in “…a bright blue throw shaped like a face that you unzipped along its mouth;”
So that it reads “…a bright blue coin purse shaped like a face that you unzipped along its mouth;”
Pg 62 –
cut the redundant ‘the caption explains,”
so that the sentence reads “In her only senior yearbook picture, she refuses to make eye contact with the camera, head craned down, inside the listening lab at the library during lunch, playing tapes of native French speakers, the caption states, to improve her pronunciation.”
Pg 75 –
“…how messed up I was in my own way,” should be “…how messed up I was in my own right,”
Pg 82 –
reword redundancy in the first half of this sentence (preceding the colon)
“She seemed relieved, at least tentatively relieved, though, by my reaction:” so that the first part reads: “She seemed relieved, though, at least tentatively, by my reaction:” (make sure to keep the part of the sentence after the colon as is)
Pg 105 –
add ‘e’ to ‘lif’ – so that “…first half of her lif—” reads “…first half of her life—"
Pg 116 –
Insert “after” into “…warned me sometime shortly moving in together…”
So that it reads “…warned me sometime shortly after moving in together…”
Pg 181 –
remove ‘needed to hear’ from ‘…without the crosstalk of anybody else I knew needed to hear.” so that the sentence ends ‘…without the crosstalk of anybody else I knew.”
Pg 199 –
remove doubled up ‘he thinks’ from ‘…into trouble because he thinks he thinks he’s smarter than everybody else.”
Pg 210 –
‘…where together we wandering…’ should be ‘…where together we wandered…’
Pg 216 –
cut ‘though’ from “…and even if it does feel sort of dramatic to imagine somewhere to begin, though my gut has an idea:”
Pg 219 –
“I think he knows” should be in italics
Pg 231 –
“…like all there’d ever be let to expect at best…” – ‘let’ should be ‘left’ so that it reads “…like all there’d ever be left to expect at best…”
Pg 262 –
Change ‘deny’ to ‘repudiate’ in “She seemed to be aware of something else there in me, too, of a kind of understanding that, unlike its formation in adults, I couldn’t deny.”
So that it reads “She seemed to be aware of something else there in me, too, of a kind of understanding that, unlike its formation in adults, I couldn’t repudiate.”
Pg 300 –
(because a very similar version of the same sentence already appears on the previous page) entirely cut “Maybe it’s her there, in my periphery, or lingering at a distance in certain rooms, around a corner—any corner—lurking, watching what I’m doing, following me, or rushing up behind me through the dark on my way to bed.”
Pg 304 –
insert ‘what’ into “…as the essence of must have once been before the universe began.” so that it reads “…as the essence of what must have once been before the universe began.”