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The first half of the novel backtracks from the discovery of Pam’s body to the graduation party nine months prior, when each Bishop sister is struggling with serious financial hardship.

After graduation, he moved to New York to try his hand at acting professionally, while still writing plays in his spare time.

At one point, she told her husband she didn’t want him attending his 10-year-old daughter’s graduation.

High school graduation in this Latino enclave was all-American in spirit, but embodied defiance toward federal officials trying to deport unauthorized immigrants.

Bass said she had received reports of ICE agents entering hospitals, workers not showing up to their jobs, parents afraid to attend their own children’s graduations.