Sophie looked past Helen for a moment, to the room's one window, and beyond, where Cloris's silver airstream was parked, shiny as the bottom of a new pan. "For when we take our cross-country," Cloris had always said, but Sophie had never seen the airstream travel. The airstream was rooted in, like a squatting tree. It had grown, Sophie imagined, silver roots.
(excerpted from
Good People, the adult novel in progress)
Published on April 28, 2010 02:20