Charms for the Easy Life
Charms for the Easy Life
“He was from Mississippi, a place I was highly interested in, not only because I liked William Faulkner but also because I was at that time reading Eudora Welty’s A Curtain of Green. Right away I asked the young man a thousand questions about the Delta. Like so many people away from home, he was eager to tell me all about it, everything he missed: the cool black loam, the cool well water, the cool breeze his mother prayed aloud for before every summer supper. He asked me if I’d like to hear abou...t his mom and pop. I told him I would. I listened carefully, as I knew the information would stand me in good stead if, or rather when, correspondence needed to be concocted. As he talked to me, I thought of how thoroughly normal my grandmother would seem in his world, even with her mothball-scented body and garlic-scented breath and antique pantaloons.
When he was growing up, his father had tended bar at a place called the Bucket of Blood Saloon. The man was a hard character, a severe alcoholic whose paychecks flew from his hands.MoreLess
When he was growing up, his father had tended bar at a place called the Bucket of Blood Saloon. The man was a hard character, a severe alcoholic whose paychecks flew from his hands.MoreLess
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