Crimes Against a Book Club

by Kathy Cooperman

Besides, La Jollans were so accustomed to hyperinflated prices that they had lost all sense of what things should cost. They were like people permanently stuck in an airport (“Four dollars for a Twix? Why not?”). In La Jolla, money was God: all-important but abstract.

keen analogies - airport and God!

And, of course, the “Greatest Love of All” argument: “We have to do it for the children,

ha

Ryan. Since graduating from college, Annie had Photoshopped those memories. She’d tied them up in a nostalgic bow, telling herself that she’d never minded

he told Natalie not to dwell on it, not to take things so personally. Blubbering, Natalie shot back, “Well, I’m a person! How the hell else can I take things?”