“We lost our apartment a few years ago, after my dad left. Mom and me. We’re doing a lot better now.” I could hear what she was saying even without her saying it. I said it for her. “You had to live in a car.” “Only for a couple of nights. But I hated it.” She drew a circle in the dirt with her toe. “I was glad, you know, to read the book. To know it didn’t only happen to me.”
