Mrs. Garver is Lani's mother. She adopted Lani when he was six-years-old and always seemed to know that something was different about him. Although it often seems like Mrs. Garver doesn't love Lani, at the end of the novel, she says she acted that way to protect him. She knows that he is bullied and she doesn't care who's responsible for it: she simply wants it to stop. After Lani's disappearance, Mrs. Garver refuses to believe that he's dead, insisting that he must have run away.
