The provided excerpts from Carolyn Parkhurst’s novel, The Nobodies Album, primarily follow the narrative of a writer named Octavia Frost, whose son, Milo Frost, has been accused of murdering his girlfriend, Bettina Moffett. Octavia is in San Francisco, navigating the media frenzy surrounding the accusation, while simultaneously grappling with Milo’s insistence that he may have committed the crime during an alcoholic blackout, though key details suggest an alternative truth. The text also includes Octavia's meta-narrative about her new book, also titled The Nobodies Album, which is a collection of rewritten final chapters from her previously published novels, demonstrating her belief in the transformative power of altered endings, samples of which are included.

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