was as if 98 percent of her hair had fallen out, but somehow in the process of falling, it had felted. The chemical tide that rose in Sooki’s blood not only caused her hair to fall out, it caused that hair to mat into a solid surface. Small, flat islands of boiled-wool hair were resolutely attached to her scalp by the 2 percent of hair which had not fallen out. It was a science experiment that could never be replicated. “See?”
