Mrs Sorenson

Appearance
Mrs Sorenson is shorter than Sang, but broader-shouldered and has heavy breasts and a slouching posture. Her fingers are chubby.

She has glassy blue eyesundefined, and wiry grayingundefined blonde hair usually worn pulled back into a sloppy ponytail.

Her voice is scratchy and sharpundefined.

Biography
Mrs Sorenson is an invalid homemaker, and mother of Marie. Initially Sang believes Mrs Sorenson to also her own mother.

When Sang was 9, Mrs Sorenson went into hospital for what Sang believed was a sinus infection, stayed a month, and then returned home with prescribed morphine and other drugs.

Sang has overheard her parents discuss Mrs Sorenson's liver and pancreasundefined, but Mr Sorenson has not revealed that Mrs Sorenson actually has cancer. She almost died when she had a biospy, and her doctors are worried because while surgery may be fatal, doing nothing will result in the cancer metastasizing and becoming untreatableundefined. Sometimes Mrs Sorenson will cry out in pain, and be taken to hospital. When home, she mostly stays in her bedroom downstairs.

Mrs Sorenson's illness and/or combination of medications leaves her paranoid and suspicious of others. It is not uncommon for her to punish Sang and Marie for minor infractions by making them kneel on the floor or sit on a kitchen stool for hours at a time. If she becomes dehydrated, doesn't eat, or doesn't take her medicine, the punishments get worseundefined. Luke observes that since he has met Sang, she is the only one to be punished - Marie is ignoredundefined.

The only photo in the house is of Mrs Sorenson at about age 20, with longer hair and sharp eyes. She keeps it hidden in a shoebox under the bed, together with needles and old bottles of medication, some dating back to before Sang's birthundefined.

Mrs Sorenson's parents are still alive. Sang has never met them. Mrs Sorenson never talks to them, and they never callundefined.