All I Have in This World (2014)
“Her mother might well have been tired—how could she not be, given all she’d endured in the past decade—but Maria quickly came to doubt she was too tired to run the motel. Running that motel would save her mother’s life. Men, love, romance, sex, domesticity, definitely motherhood—her mother was done with all that, at age fifty-three. She’d had enough of trying to accommodate the alternately selfish and helpless doings of men. Maria could see it in the way her mother had dealt with the few men th...ey had come into contact with since she’d been home. Her cousin Alberto, who ran cattle behind the house, came by to check the water tanks and happened to spot Maria and her mother pulling into the drive coming back from the grocery store. He whipped in behind them and hopped out of his still-running truck to give Maria a hug and say to her mother, “How come you won’t even tell somebody Maria’s home?”
Maria’s mother looked at Alberto as if he was still back in high school, hotdogging around town in the Nissan Sentra he’d been so proud of, a tight end for the Javelinas who had scored a lucky touchdown in a play-off game against Sierra Blanca and let it ruin the next five years of his life.MoreLess
Maria’s mother looked at Alberto as if he was still back in high school, hotdogging around town in the Nissan Sentra he’d been so proud of, a tight end for the Javelinas who had scored a lucky touchdown in a play-off game against Sierra Blanca and let it ruin the next five years of his life.MoreLess
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