Sunday is the day of Auntie Lois’s God, the kind that asks for Cora’s money in a golden dish but won’t let her drink wine because she was never baptized and she’s embarrassingly old to be baptized now. All are welcome in God’s house, Auntie Lois says, but she always emphasizes the all, as if God is especially generous for letting someone like Cora in, like there’s something about her that’s inherently unholy.
