How is the Family Support Center described in the novel, Waiting For Eden?

For three years before Eden’s awakening, and now for three years after, Mary lives in the Family Support Center located adjacent to the hospital and accessible by a “cement path that wound through a grass field” (89). This makes the journey to and from Eden’s hospital room uncomplicated, though the proximity also narrows Mary’s world to the hospital campus. Unlike the hospital’s multiple floors, the family center was a long but low building described as a “bedridden skyscraper” (89). The rooms are like a dormitory, with the kitchen and living room united. The kitchen had a counter with barstools, and Mary places all the mail into a fruit bowl located on the top of the counter.