Fate dealt Middle2 and her three sisters the death card in "That House" in Somewhere Small when their mother died and their dad disappeared shortly after Middle2's fifth birthday in 1968. She became a ward of The System and spent the next thirteen years with three sets of surrogate parents, hired by The System to "foster" her care. For Middle2, life was as acidic as The Big River that flowed through Somewhere Small. But when she learned about Faraway Places while running her fingers over the plastic globe perched on the windowsill of her elementary school classroom, the began envisioning her...