Summary

Evelyn: Chicago-New York, 2008-2011. When Evelyn arrived at her new home in Chicago, she was not quite sure how to deal with the passionate greeting she got from her mother Miriam, who was essentially a stranger to her and who did not seem to know how to relate to her. The awkwardness between the two continued for the few years that Evelyn lived with Miriam, Gabriel, and their two children in a trailer park, years in which Evelyn went to school, and worked with her mother part-time as a cleaner (and then full time once she graduated). Narration describes how both Evelyn and Miriam avoided talking in specifics about what happened to Gregorio and Andres, but when they did speak about it, it ended in argument: Miriam saying that the grandmother could have done more, Evelyn saying she did everything she could. The...