Chapter 6
Sarah pushed Grace in her stroller along Derby Wharf toward the Salem Maritime National Historic Site, enjoying the late afternoon summer sunshine, allowing herself to be comforted by the sound of the soothing laps against the rocky shore. Even after nearly two years back in Massachusetts, the sea in the bay never grew old for her. Children ran along the shoreline, splashing in the gray-blue calm, waving at their mothers, laughing at each other. Sarah smiled at them, then at Grace, who was fascinated by the other children, watching them as though they were floating fairies or horned unicorns, as though she didn’t know what they were but they were magical anyway.
“Am I keeping you too isolated?” Sarah asked her daughter. “You don’t see other children now since Steve’s taken Bill
