Summary

Frida Liu receives a call from a police officer, Officer Brunner, in Chapter 1. She is in the car. He has her daughter Harriet, whom he found alone in Frida’s home. Frida texts Harriet’s father Gust, with whom she shares custody of Frida, to update him. At the station, Officer Brunner demands an explanation for Frida’s decision to leave her daughter alone for two hours in the ExerSaucer, a contraption designed to keep children safe. Frida explains that she went to get a coffee and had to go into her office for a file. She rewrites academic papers into short articles for a living. She says she is lucky to have found any work at all in Philadelphia and could get fired if she submits her assignment late. Frida cries and apologizes. She was exhausted from endlessly watching Frida, who has...