Jo has the girl shower before dinner, meanwhile calling the police about the possibly homeless child. When she says her mission on Earth is like Jo getting a PhD, Gabe decides she isn’t his problem and leaves. When he arrives, he tries to coax information from her, but she sticks to her story. Jo goes alone to the egg stand run by her neighbor, Gabe, with whom she hasn’t interacted much. When Jo tells her to go home, she leaves but insists her home is among the stars. The girl claims she came to Earth to witness five miracles and report back to her home planet. The girl befriends a stray dog, whom she names Little Bear (after Ursa Minor), and maintains her alien story, acting as if every experience on Earth is new (though she knows about marshmallows and cheese). Jo thinks the story’s invented but pities her and feeds her. One night, she sees a strange girl on the property, barefoot and wearing pajama bottoms, who claims she’s an alien inhabiting a dead girl’s body. She’s two years behind schedule because she had to battle cancer, and is grieving the loss of her mother from the same cancer. Graduate student Joanna (“Jo”) Teale is working on her doctorate in bird ecology and rents a cottage in the woods to complete her summer research. This guide follows the first edition, the 2019 Lake Union Publishing paperback version of the novel.
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