An Ornithologist's Guide to Life
“She is wet with Hawaiian Tropic suntan oil; she is pretending to read a home decorating magazine; she is thinking the boy is too young, too sexy, too trashy to be here, in her yard, distracting her. His name is Justin, one of those soap opera names people give their children. He is shirtless, tanned, tattooed. He makes Marjorie nervous.
The Macombers live in a big white house with stone pillars in the front that was built back in the forties. Some of the neighbors—like the O’Haras next door—have divided up their large lots and sold them off so that now new slapped-together houses are wedged in between the older, better homes. Marjorie has a burning distaste for these new people and their boxy houses. They have come in and ruined the neighborhood, which used to be quiet and friendly, the kind of place where neighbors got together for barbecues in summer or skating parties in winter—and even the pond has been filled in and sold; there’s no place to skate now. Cissy O’Hara used to babysi...t Marjorie’s daughter Bonnie.MoreLess
The Macombers live in a big white house with stone pillars in the front that was built back in the forties. Some of the neighbors—like the O’Haras next door—have divided up their large lots and sold them off so that now new slapped-together houses are wedged in between the older, better homes. Marjorie has a burning distaste for these new people and their boxy houses. They have come in and ruined the neighborhood, which used to be quiet and friendly, the kind of place where neighbors got together for barbecues in summer or skating parties in winter—and even the pond has been filled in and sold; there’s no place to skate now. Cissy O’Hara used to babysi...t Marjorie’s daughter Bonnie.MoreLess
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