Celeste Ng

You can’t blame yourself if the students don’t try. And they’re not all so bad. A few got As.”

You can’t blame yourself if the students don’t try. And they’re not all so bad. A few got As.”

Lots of times, they say, the girls are mad at their parents and the parents don’t even know.

“Not with Lydia making a face like that. People will think she looks like that all the time. Pick a nice one.”

Lydia has never really had friends, but their parents have never known.

hugged her for a long time and whispered, “How proud I am of you. You have no idea.”

“Now, your wife also went missing once?” he says. “I remember the case. In sixty-six, wasn’t it

After school, she walks to the bus alone and settles into the seat beside him in silence.

Home economics was required for every sophomore girl, and Marilyn’s mother, Doris Walker, was the only home ec teacher at Patrick Henry Senior High.

She didn’t remember his leaving but knew it had happened.