Enter April Summary

A brief flashback in this chapter presents a little bit of information about who April Hall is. April comes to live with her paternal grandmother, Caroline, in a university town. Until this time, she lived with her mother, Dorothea, in Hollywood. Dorothea is a singer and an aspiring movie actress. Caroline lives in a rundown apartment building called Casa Rosada, and works at the university library. Caroline has made an arrangement with the downstairs neighbors, the Ross's, for April to have lunch with them and perhaps become friends with their daughter, Melanie. The Ross's also have a four-year-old little boy named Marshall.

Once Caroline leaves for work, April decides to go out and explore the neighborhood, particularly the store across the street that has interesting things in the window. She enters the store and begins to look in the glass cabinets...