Lost in the Moment and Found (Wayward Children, #8)

by Seanan McGuire

After a week had passed, Antsy went back to school, finding herself suddenly a member of a small, involuntarily exclusive club for children with dead parents. People who had always been friendly toward her treated her like she had something contagious, like she had become an entirely different person over the span of a week and a half. Like a father having a massive heart attack in the toy section of Target was somehow catching.

“America, too, by the sound of her. They still think they’re the only place there is.”