Homeland And Other Stories

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Homeland And Other Stories
Barbara Kingsolver
Genres: Fiction
In the beginning there is nothing else for Sulie to think. Her other neighbor, Estelle Berry, who spends a good part of each day picking yellow leaves off her jasmine bushes and looking down the street, comes over and says like it’s Sulie’s fault, “If you ask me it makes the place look slummish. She’s started setting them out on her porch under a door stop, to flap in the breeze.”
“Well, Mrs. Berry, it’s just notes,” says Sulie. “Maybe it’s notes to the milkman.”
“Lord in heaven, child, you hav
...en’t lived here long enough to know. It’s not to the milkman, it’s to Him.”
For a dollar Sulie has changed a light bulb for the woman in the gable-ended house, whose name is Nola Rainey, and for free she has knocked down two paper-wasp nests from behind the ivy with a mop handle. In the eyes of the rest of the neighborhood, that is enough. Sulie is on Nola Rainey’s side. But Sulie doesn’t know the woman all that well, and when Estelle says Him, Sulie thinks she means Nola is leaving notes to God.
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