NORA
After her encounter with Gideon in the middle school parking lot Nora waited until dinner was done and her father was settled in his recliner, the NCAA men’s basketball tournament on the television and his nightly bottle of Michelob in his hand. Then she went to her bedroom.
Her yearbooks were in the back of her closet. She dug them out, sat on her bed, and paged through her freshman book until she found a photo of Grace Prentiss, a dark-haired girl in a peasant blouse who smiled uncertainly despite her obvious beauty. Gideon wasn’t with Jeremy and the seniors, but Nora wasn’t surprised. Less than half the Marzen kids stuck around to graduate.
She flipped through her other books, looking for more pictures of Grace. Nora and Britta were everywhere, posing in Homecoming tiaras and ch
