Summary

In Chapter 3, Mia’s life was changed one day when she was helping the children at school during recess. She heard shouts from the apple orchard and then silence. Evangeline told Mia a worker had been crushed when a truck backed over her. Mia saw men carrying a woman’s body. She recognized her mother’s red boots. Just a few days earlier, she had begged her mother to leave with her.

Ivy’s service was the following day. Mia had stayed all night with her mother’s body. The other women had tried to make her leave, but Joel had finally told them to leave Mia alone. At the graveside, Mia blamed Joel for her mother’s ruin. Mia thought of the quote from Henry IV when she pulled ferns from around her mother’s grave as the men, commanded by Joel...