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nothing took precedence over reading; it was considered the holiest activity a person could engage in.
But there was something about Mallory that made him feel safe. He could turn himself inside out and show her his wounds, and it would be okay.
Jake is smitten. He loves everything that’s familiar and everything that’s different.
Mallory kicks Jake under the table and suddenly the night comes alive. She’s jealous!
She is that English teacher, the one Fifi wished she’d had in secondary school—the one who listens, the one who reads her students’ work carefully and asks questions without prying, the one who presses a novel into a student’s hands and says, I thought of you when I read this. Let me know if you like it.
The champagne loosens him; it sends glitter through his veins.