Fiona ended up renting a single chair in another salon across town.

And Teresa and George moved together into a small rented apartment.

The life they had tried to build on my inheritance had, in the end, cost them the modest one they’d had.

Chapter 20 — So Everyone Can See That It’s Full

One Sunday afternoon, our old neighbor Lupita sat with me in the courtyard while Chloe drew on the patio with sidewalk chalk.

My daughter worked with great concentration, and when she was finished, she had drawn a big house, and a tree, and flowers, and, sitting right in the middle of the yard, enormous and central and impossible to miss, a refrigerator.