Beautiful Stranger (2000)
“The snow that had been spitting around them all day had just begun to fall in earnest—big thick flakes drifting down from a windless sky—and Marissa expected Robert to find a room before he dealt with the problem of Mario. He did not.
As they hit the city limits, winding through traffic that was moving thick and sluggishly along the highway, Marissa watched a change come over him. A lightless mask come down over his features, thinning his mouth, narrowing his eyes. His hands were tight on the s...teering wheel as the truck left the interstate and headed into a world that did not appear, at least to her eyes, that threatening. It certainly didn’t look like the “barrio” of her imagination—and staring out the window, she had to wonder what exactly she’d imagined it to look like. High-rise tenements, she supposed, the images of old, Midwestern and eastern cities.
This was the West. This barrio was filled with blocks of single-dwelling houses, with front porches and small yards that were often fenced in chain link.MoreLess
As they hit the city limits, winding through traffic that was moving thick and sluggishly along the highway, Marissa watched a change come over him. A lightless mask come down over his features, thinning his mouth, narrowing his eyes. His hands were tight on the s...teering wheel as the truck left the interstate and headed into a world that did not appear, at least to her eyes, that threatening. It certainly didn’t look like the “barrio” of her imagination—and staring out the window, she had to wonder what exactly she’d imagined it to look like. High-rise tenements, she supposed, the images of old, Midwestern and eastern cities.
This was the West. This barrio was filled with blocks of single-dwelling houses, with front porches and small yards that were often fenced in chain link.MoreLess
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