The Place of Solitude and Safety for Rita

"It's easy to write about my grandma's house. It's like my favorite place on the planet." "I don't hardly know anybody until hatching anymore and nobody is certainly friendly," she says of her community in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The first book doesn't really cover why it's a safe space for Rita; this is the place she can go if she needs some time away from these things. 'For me, I it's a way of just kind of like pulling out that nostalgia'