First Sentence

"Sitting comfortably on the plush gray leather living room sofa with her stockinged feet tucked under her ample bottom and wearing an old pair of sweatpants with a hole in the knee and a paint-splattered sweatshirt, Jamilah Parsons cradled a bowl of her favorite ice cream, Häagen-Dazs® Vanilla Swiss Almond, in her lap, despite the chill in the apartment on that cold February night."