Peters’s violin bow and throwing the pieces in her face.
One morning, Mia is home alone with Izzy, who has been suspended from school for breaking her racist, alcoholic orchestra teacher Mrs.
Pearl fears that her mother’s presence will ruin her relationship with the Richardsons-especially her flirtations with the handsome Trip. Mia, happy for an inroad into her daughter’s new life, accepts Mrs. Richardson offers to hire Mia as a housekeeper. Realizing that Mia has had to take several odd jobs to make ends meet, Mrs.
Richardson stops by Mia and Pearl’s apartment to check in. Pearl then calls Moody, who drives his mother’s car to come retrieve her. Pearl, slightly drunk and alone, searches for Lexie, Serena, and Trip, but is unable to find any of them. Lexie’s boyfriend Brian arrives and the two sneak away to have sex. Pearl, Lexie, and Serena Wong enjoy the beginning of the party together. Pearl is invited to tag along to a house party at the home of Stacie Perry, a popular girl known for her wild gatherings. Richardson is a lawyer, and the children are all “artlessly beautiful.” Mia begins to notice Pearl’s growing infatuation with the Richardsons but tells herself that she owes Pearl a semblance of a normal life, and allows her to continue visiting their home daily, where Pearl watches Jerry Springer, takes trips to the mall or thrift stores with Lexie, flirts with the charming Trip, and receives an expensive notebook from Moody, who has developed feelings for Pearl. Pearl is “dazzled” by the Richardsons Mrs. As their friendship deepens, Moody brings Pearl to his house, hopeful that she will be as fascinated by his family as he is by her and her mother’s bohemian “magic trick” of a life. Moody is the first of the Richardson children to befriend Pearl Warren. This time, Mia has promised Pearl, the two of them will “stay put.” Pearl and Mia have lived a transient lifestyle, moving from town to town. The narrative then flashes back to the previous June, when Mia and Pearl Warren arrived in Shaker Heights, Ohio, to live on the top floor of the Richardsons’ rental property on Winslow Road-in one of the manicured, utopic planned community’s “less desirable” fringe neighborhoods.
Richardson and her three older children, Lexie, Trip, and Moody, stand on the lawn surveying the damage and wondering where Izzy has gone. The firemen who assessed the damage have determined that there were “little fires everywhere” throughout the house, indicating “multiple points of origin.” Mrs. The Richardson house has burned down and Izzy Richardson, the youngest of the four Richardson children, is the primary suspect.
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