The foster parents live just 25 minutes from Frank's home, Frank will be entitled to scheduled visits, and Mary will be able to decide where she wants to live after her 12th birthday. Worried that the judge will rule against him and he will lose Mary completely, Frank accepts a compromise brokered by his lawyer Greg Cullen that sees Mary placed in foster care and attend the private school where Evelyn wants to have her enrolled. However, Frank is adamant that his sister would want Mary to be in a normal public school and have the childhood she didn't have. Mary has lived with Frank, a former college professor turned boat repairman, ever since.įrank's estranged mother and Mary's maternal grandmother, Evelyn, seeks to gain custody of Mary and move her to Massachusetts, believing that Mary is a "one-in-a-billion" mathematical prodigy who should be specially tutored in preparation for a life devoted to mathematics, much as Diane was. It emerges that Mary's mother, Diane, had been a promising mathematician, dedicated to the Navier–Stokes problem (one of the unsolved Millennium Prize Problems) before taking her own life when Mary was six months old. Based on his family's experiences with similar schools, he fears Mary will not have a chance at a "normal" childhood. Mary is offered a scholarship to a private school for gifted children. There, despite her initial disdain for average children her own age and her boredom with their classwork, she begins to bond with them when she brings her one-eyed cat, Fred, for show-and-tell and later defends a classmate from a bully on the bus. On her first day of first grade, she shows remarkable mathematical talent, which impresses her teacher, Bonnie Stevenson.
Her best friend is her 40-ish neighbor, Roberta. In a small town near Tampa, Florida, seven-year-old Mary Adler lives with uncle and de facto guardian, Frank.
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