Butterfly (2009)
“It reminds her of a fairground ride she’s seen in black-and-white movies, where a swan-shaped boat glides through a tunnel on submerged tracks. She would like every day of her life to be lived inside a cup-like swan that knew where it was going, and where it would end.
The weather, of a sudden, loses its brashness; the north wind stops blowing, the sun retreats, and summer is finally done. Plum’s school dress stops catching on patches of sweat, her armpits aren’t muggy as tea. Her stomach is us...ed to deprivation now, and no longer writhes noisily; when Caroline asks, “Where’s your lunch gone, Plummy?” she’s confident enough to say, “You don’t need three meals a day. Lunch is why people are fat.” And her friends ogle her, and she feels the bread turn to sand in their mouths.
Classes are good; she does well in a math test; the Youth Group leader had sat beside Rachael at the meeting on Saturday night, so the friends have something over which to thrall. When Rachael had told him she’d miss the next meeting because of a friend’s slumber party, the leader had answered, “That’s no good,”MoreLess
The weather, of a sudden, loses its brashness; the north wind stops blowing, the sun retreats, and summer is finally done. Plum’s school dress stops catching on patches of sweat, her armpits aren’t muggy as tea. Her stomach is us...ed to deprivation now, and no longer writhes noisily; when Caroline asks, “Where’s your lunch gone, Plummy?” she’s confident enough to say, “You don’t need three meals a day. Lunch is why people are fat.” And her friends ogle her, and she feels the bread turn to sand in their mouths.
Classes are good; she does well in a math test; the Youth Group leader had sat beside Rachael at the meeting on Saturday night, so the friends have something over which to thrall. When Rachael had told him she’d miss the next meeting because of a friend’s slumber party, the leader had answered, “That’s no good,”MoreLess
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