Summary

In Chapter 11, as Andy hid part of her mother’s cash in a storage unit she had rented among junk she had purchased from a Salvation Army store, Andy felt a sense of purpose. She had decided she wanted answers and was not going to go to Idaho like her mother had directed her. She had used Google to locate Paula’s house near Austin. As Andy pulled up to the house, she hoped that all the questions she had about her mother would soon be answered.

Paula greeted Andy with a baseball bat and demanded to know who she was. Because she was wearing a scarf and had blood vessels broken in one eye, Andy assumed she had been strangled just like her mother had been. Andy was surprised when Paula actually let her in the house even though Paula called her...