However, Heidi is so focused on her goal at hand that she ignores Bernadette.Īt Hilltop, she discovers that her mother had indeed been a resident at Hilltop Home for a little over a year. Right as Roy appears to take her, Bernadette calls and tells Heidi to come home. The next day, Heidi is anxious to return to Hilltop and get answers, but is not taken back to Hilltop until the afternoon. They take Heidi home, feed her, and give her a bed to sleep in. She uses her wits and her lucky streak to arrive at Hilltop Home.Īt Hilltop Home, Heidi is met with hostility from the director, but is taken in by one of the caretakers, Ruby, and her husband Roy. Heidi arrives at Liberty safely but penniless (thanks to a pickpocket). Heidi meets interesting people on her bus ride.
When repeated phone calls and letters to Hilltop Home are ignored, Heidi decides she must go there herself to get answers. It (possibly pregnant), a woman that seems to be her mother, a young man, and a thin Santa. When she develops it, she finds pictures of what looks to be a holiday party at a place called Hilltop Home, Liberty, New York. One day, Heidi finds a roll of old film in the back of a kitchen drawer. Of special interest to her is what her mother’s made-up word “soof” means. Bernadette does not have any information and discourages Heidi's curiosity. Sometimes she uses this luck on the slot machine at the laundromat to make some much needed money to supplement their income.Īs she becomes older, Heidi is besot with curiosity about her history. Heidi also has what they call a “lucky streak”. Financially, Bernadette has a small inheritance from her father, Heidi and her mother’s rent and utility bills are magically paid for. How do a 12-year-old girl, a mentally disabled mother, and an agoraphobic woman survive? Fortunately there is a door between Bernadette and Heidi’s apartment, so Bernadette is able to go to their home without leaving her own. The beginning of the book discusses the logistics of their lives. Longing to discover her own history and fueled by a roll of old film she discovered in the back of a kitchen drawer, Heidi sets off on a quest to find someone who knew her mother before Bernadette.
Since Heidi’s mother can only say a few words, the only information Bernadette has - and consequently Heidi has- is that Heidi’s name is Heidi and her mother’s name is So B. Their agoraphobic neighbor Bernadette found Heidi’s mother at her door with an infant in her arms twelve years ago and has taken care of them ever since. It is a coming of age story about 12-year-old Heidi whose mother has a mental disability.
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