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Let all those mountain houses and ski condos go down, all the way down and the deer and the bricks and the high school girls and the people who never tip. It isn’t all that great a world anyway, you know?
Bunnatine knows her mother is a superhero. She isn’t just a waitress. That’s just her cover story.
the mutants
the kid.
Simile
the kid is still asleep.
She thinks Bunnatine ought to tell Biscuit about the kid. But it’s a little late for that, and who knows? Maybe she isn’t his kid anyway.
Th...
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The lesson: 9/11, children’s books, love - infant and adult.
The real lesson for me is the physiology, care, and feeding of a 24-week-old fetus.
Thanh and Harper
Haha
Naomi
If they never had to see each other again.
Naomi,
Naomi
old Russians with rent-stabilized leases.
Naomi
Haha
Fleur,
Harper likes meeting people, especially when he knows he never has to see them again.
Naomi
Han,
Fleur
Haha
Able to wring maximum fun, maximum exhausting whimsy, out of all gatherings.
Chula Vista.
David
Bad Claw Island
Han
Harper, nimble spinner of the spectacular untruth,
Haha - Coleridge, the wedding guest in The Ancient Mariner
there is no story that Harper does not further embellish, does not re-embroider.
Haha
Fleur
Lenny
Bad Claw Lodge
Haha
a piece of taxidermy. Something catlike, but with a peculiarly flattened, leathery tail.
I need a quick crash course in marriage. What’s sex like?
Haha
Haha - Mee too
We’re at different ends of the political spectrum. But he’s good to me. And he’s rich.
the lesson
Filene’s Basement.
Harper and Thanh were married in a courthouse office. They wore good suits. Red boxers, because red is lucky. Luck is necessary.
Here’s marriage advice Thanh could give Fleur. Be lucky.
information gathering in field settings.
Haha
Crown Island! Lake Muskoka, Bracebridge, Ontario, Canada.
Fleur
the medicinal smell of pine and salt.
Thanh,
