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The late great novelist John Gardner famously said that there are only two plots: One, a person goes on a journey, and two, a stranger comes to town.”
Eric and his girlfriend, Avalon, are always around, meeting the Chief and Andrea at the Anglers’ Club for Friday appetizers, coming for dinner every week. Chloe and Finn, the twins Ed and Andrea adopted after Andrea’s cousin Tess and her husband, Greg, died, are both in college. Chloe insisted that the Chief join Snapchat, and thanks to this, he can follow the twins’ every move; he probably knows more about their lives than he wants to. Only Kacy remains a mystery.
The bald one who wears horn-rimmed glasses and a tailored shirt is Addison; he’s the real estate agent who represented the Richardsons. The glamorous blonde in the flowing white dress with the diamond studs the size of dimes in her ears is his wife, Phoebe. Jeffrey is the farmer; he showed up with a basket of hothouse tomatoes and a bag of hydroponic lettuces, and he’s wearing a T-shirt that says WHO’S YOUR FARMER? (Coco assumes this is meant to be funny/ironic, since it’s him.) His wife is Delilah; she has curly hair and freckles and is wearing a long prairie skirt and a tight white T-shirt.
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how the streets were paved with cobblestones sourced from Gloucester, Massachusetts, in the 1830s.
Coco asks what a frappe is and Kacy laughs and says it’s a milkshake and it’s pronounced “frap,” not “frappy.”
Scarlet Begonia on Water Street, a place known for its spinach-artichoke dip
“Have you ever heard the phrase kill your darlings?” “Attributed to William Faulkner,” Nancy said. Nancy was turning out to be kind of a pill. “It means you should delete anything that’s not working in your writing, no matter how fond you might be of it.”
There were at least a dozen beaches to lounge on, afternoons at Cisco Brewers with live music and food trucks, rainy days at either the Whaling Museum or the Dreamland Theater, oysters at Cru, a sunset cruise on the Endeavor, singing around the piano at the Club Car, and dancing at the Chicken Box, followed by a late-night Stubbys run.
on the counter of which are jars, pots, and tubes from La Mer and Valmont and an ornate bottle of Guerlain perfume.
Nantucket Reds
Grace and Benton’s long-ago affair,
She buys steak tips and salmon fillets from the Nantucket Meat and Fish Market, then heads down the street to Pip and Anchor for a wedge of Savage cheese (sourced from the von Trapp family farm in Vermont) and a certain organic rosé that Leslee likes. Coco selects tomatoes, lettuce, and herbs from Bartlett’s Farm. (“Don’t you want to use Sea View Farm?” she asked Leslee. “The owners, Jeffrey and Delilah, were at your party.” “Go to Bartlett’s, please,” Leslee said. “As I mentioned, Delilah never thanked me.”) Next it’s off
“It’s a game, Delilah,” Andrea says. “A game with rules,” Delilah says. “When you break the rules, it’s cheating.”
Sharon has become the kind of woman she never understood before—someone who doesn’t need to talk about other people to make her days more interesting because her days are interesting enough as it is.
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