Grace Lark is Linda and Linden's mother, a white woman who used to own a gas station near the reservation. Grace and her husband George were once convicted of trying to swindle older and disabled Chippewa people who bought things from the gas station store. After Linda's birth, despite being a vocal opponent of abortion, Grace abandoned her daughter because she had a birth defect. Linda was raised instead by Betty Wishkob, and after Betty's death, Grace tried to gain legal custody of Linda in order to steal the land Linda had inherited. In retaliation, Linda's adoptive siblings started a boycott of the Lark gas station, putting them out of business. Grace later approaches Linda under the pretense of wanting to reconnect with her, but she is really trying to manipulate Linda into giving Linden a kidney. Grace represents a hypocrisy that Bazil said is prevalent among white people: pretending to be friendly with Natives while secretly hating and exploiting them. Grace's character shows how the exploitative, two-faced attitudes that Bazil finds in the language of old court decisions persists into the modern day.