Lydia is dead. But they don’t know this yet.
It is May 3, 1977 and Lydia is the favorite child of James and Marilyn Lee. She has her mother’s deep blue eyes and her father’s black hair.
James is Chinese-American, the son of a private school janitor and the lunch lady at the same school. He has a PhD in American Studies from Harvard and had hoped to be asked to stay on to teach there. Instead, he is told that he is not a good “fit” for Harvard and, instead, has to settle for a job at a small college in a small town in Ohio where he now has tenure. He has never felt that he “belonged,” has
