It was strange how Lisa’s life had always changed with phone calls. A phone call from the fire chief in Kern County, California, to break the news about Danny. A phone call from Reese Witherspoon to make her book into a movie. A phone call from the police in Crookston, Minnesota, to let her know that there had been an accident on a slippery, snow-swept road, that a semi had gone through a stop sign on the rural highway, that we are very sorry but your mother, Madeleine Power, was killed in the collision.

