Money, however, is not much of an issue with no bills to pay.īernie homeschools Heidi, but Heidi meets one boy in the building who attends school. Heidi, uncannily lucky with games of chance, never comes home empty-handed. Heidi babysits for a small amount of money also, with Bernie’s permission, she sometimes makes a trip to the Sudsy Duds Laundromat to play the slot machine. Heidi wonders why Mama never pays rent or utility bills. Bernadette (whom Heidi calls Bernie) does not work outside the home she pays bills from a small inheritance left by her father. Heidi, now 12, begins to question how she and Mama came to live in the apartment. She became caretaker to Mama and Heidi, and later taught Heidi to read and other basic tasks like how to cross a street. Luckily, Bernadette found an adjoining door between their apartments. After Mama left, Bernadette worried for them as an agoraphobic individual, she could not leave her home. When she opened the door, Mama came into Bernadette’s apartment and let Bernadette help with baby Heidi. Her only family history goes back to February 19th a dozen years before, when Bernadette heard a baby crying in the hallway outside her door. Heidi does not know her father nor any other relatives. She is close to two people in her life: her mother, who has a “bum brain,” as Heidi puts it, and Bernadette, a next-door neighbor in their apartment building. Heidi would like to venture further away from the apartment building, but Mama cannot board the city bus the one time Heidi tries to persuade her to do so, Mama has a strange panic attack and loses control.Heidi lives in modern day Reno, Nevada.
Errands consist of the market and stores on the same city block until Heidi is old enough to cross the road. Bernie instructs Heidi in reading at home Heidi does not attend school. Her exposure to the outside world is limited from the time she is a small child due to Mama’s condition and Bernadette’s agoraphobia. Heidi does not know her own birthday or how she and Mama came to live in an apartment where rent and utility bills never arrive. Heidi does not know anything about her mother’s life or history before Bernadette discovered Mama in the hall near her door and infant Heidi crying in Mama’s arms. Bernadette, next-door neighbor whose apartment connects to Mama’s and Heidi’s, serves in a caretaking role to them both.
Heidi does not know any family members besides Mama. She lives in an apartment in Reno, Nevada she shares with her mother.
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