May Lia Summary

Lia muses about her first flight to Los Angeles, where she sat beside a man with a briefcase full of candy that his daughter had given him and told him about her aspirations, flipping her freshly dyed blond hair over her shoulders. Eleven years later, she'd flown back, paying for two seats to be sure there was no baby beside her. She'd paid cash for the rental car in Philadelphia so Sam couldn't track her through a credit card. As she neared her old neighborhood, she noticed that everything looked faded and smaller. Her old key still worked and she had sat waiting for her mother to come home.

Lia's mother arrived home at exactly 4:15; she'd always come home at just that time. She had looked at Lia, blinked twice and said, "I can defrost another chicken breast for dinner. Do...