The
answer to this question can be found in the chapter titled "Enter April." It is
chapter two. Chapter two functions as a bit of a flashback because chapter one is about the
Professor watching the kids play the Egypt Game. Chapter two explains how April came to the
neighborhood even though her mother lives in Hollywood. We are told very early in the chapter
that April's mother is very "glamorous" and sent April away to live with a grandmother
she hardly knows.
She came because she had been sent away
by Dorothea, her beautiful and glamorous mother . . .
April assumes that she won't be with her grandmother very long, so she doesn't have a
very good attitude about the entire situation; however, the grandmother knows better. She knows
that Dorothea's career puts her on tour quite often, and as her success increases, her time away
from home will also increase. Dorothea is more focused on her career than her daughter, so she
sent April to live with April's grandmother.
Dorothea had
promised it would only be for a little while. Only until
things got more settled down
and she wasnt on tour so much of the time.
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