Edgartown

Edgartown is a town in Pennsylvania where Maren's maternal grandparents live. She has never met them, but she saved a Christmas card they sent one year with their address on it. When her mother abandons her in Cincinnati, Maren first tries to track her down by taking a bus to Edgartown. However, when she arrives and looks at her mother through her grandparents' house's window and sees her mother crying, she decides not to bother her. She sleeps in a car overnight and meets Mrs. Harmon the next day at the grocery store. She also meets Sully when he breaks into Mrs. Harmon's house and eats her.

Walmart

Maren tries to hitchhike to find her father in Minnesota, but the girl she is hitchhiking with abandons her in a Walmart in the middle of Iowa when they stop for Maren to use the bathroom. Unbeknownst to her, Lee's...