As the Earth Turns Silver
“Even as a six-year-old she noticed the tension in her mother’s face, the way she’d held herself separate from her father.
Every time Mrs Newman opened a newspaper, pointed out interesting articles and encouraged her to read them, even when she heard a paper boy standing on a street corner calling out his wares, Edie remembered her father: the smells of whisky, tobacco, ink, the smudgy shadows on his hands and once-white cuffs, on his cheek or jaw or the side of his nose, his inky hands thrown i...n the air in the midst of heated conversation. Her father. A man who could have devised some of the problems she faced at school: A man leaves £4000 to each of three sons and £1500 to each of two daughters, what is his estate? Or: Divide £100 between two men and two women so that each man may get twice the share of a woman.
These are the things she remembered later, after Mrs Newman had held out an envelope and asked her, ‘What does this say, Edie?’ Edie was puzzled. ‘Mrs Alexander Newman, 215 . . .’ ‘Yes, yes.MoreLess
Every time Mrs Newman opened a newspaper, pointed out interesting articles and encouraged her to read them, even when she heard a paper boy standing on a street corner calling out his wares, Edie remembered her father: the smells of whisky, tobacco, ink, the smudgy shadows on his hands and once-white cuffs, on his cheek or jaw or the side of his nose, his inky hands thrown i...n the air in the midst of heated conversation. Her father. A man who could have devised some of the problems she faced at school: A man leaves £4000 to each of three sons and £1500 to each of two daughters, what is his estate? Or: Divide £100 between two men and two women so that each man may get twice the share of a woman.
These are the things she remembered later, after Mrs Newman had held out an envelope and asked her, ‘What does this say, Edie?’ Edie was puzzled. ‘Mrs Alexander Newman, 215 . . .’ ‘Yes, yes.MoreLess
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