Summary

In Chapter 1, Sal and her father arrive at the home of Margaret Cadaver in Euclid, Ohio, three hundred miles from their home in Bybanks, Kentucky. When they arrive, Sal is introduced by her father to a red-headed woman named Margaret Cadaver. Sal points out that there are no trees, no barn, and no river nearby, as their home in Bybanks had. Sal looks next door and sees a girl’s face in the window. She later discovers the girl is Phoebe Winterbottom. Sal says she and Phoebe will later become friends and that “many peculiar” things happy to Phoebe.

In Chapter 2, Gram and Gramps Hiddle arrive after Sal has spent some time with Phoebe. Gram and Gramps are Sal’s father’s parents and they plan to drive across country to Lewiston, Idaho, where Sugar is buried. They set out from Kentucky and...