Chapter 15Sean had barely budged for the past couple of hours, plastered to the seat of a decaying cement bench at the middle of a small courtyard in front of the coroner’s office. The sun had long set. The traffic on the street had thinned out. The light from a glazed window at the edge of the building was all that let him see the cracked sidewalk that led up to the entrance.
The news, as told him by Quammen, was devastating. Shortly after Dusty had left Claudia’s trailer that morning to pick up Sean, the mother had been notified that her only daughter had taken her own life. It had happened sometime overnight. A neighbor who was to have coffee with Maria early that morning had found her apartment door unlocked, and entered to discover her unresponsive on her bed with a bottle of prescri
