My Lucky Days: a Novel (2016)
“I was excited to see Lucky. But a familiar feeling resurfaced in my gut—a cold and bitter spark that always came when I moved on.
As I flew over the square patches of brown and green land, I thought about the time in first grade when I painted a picture of my family.
I had made everything in my drawing a different color. The tree was solid red. The ground was solid brown. As for the people, I made my father a yellow color with my mother blue. I remember being really proud of myself. Yellow and ...blue made green, and I had colored myself a dark emerald shade just like the city.
When I brought the picture home, my mother’s eyebrow arched into little points. They were always so perfectly sculpted. I assumed they still were plucked that way.
But on that cold afternoon, she’d held my picture and said, “Well, isn’t that colorful,” before promptly tossing my drawing in the trash. I think my mouth fell open and a tear rolled down my cheek. Pictures were supposed to go on the refrigerator.MoreLess
As I flew over the square patches of brown and green land, I thought about the time in first grade when I painted a picture of my family.
I had made everything in my drawing a different color. The tree was solid red. The ground was solid brown. As for the people, I made my father a yellow color with my mother blue. I remember being really proud of myself. Yellow and ...blue made green, and I had colored myself a dark emerald shade just like the city.
When I brought the picture home, my mother’s eyebrow arched into little points. They were always so perfectly sculpted. I assumed they still were plucked that way.
But on that cold afternoon, she’d held my picture and said, “Well, isn’t that colorful,” before promptly tossing my drawing in the trash. I think my mouth fell open and a tear rolled down my cheek. Pictures were supposed to go on the refrigerator.MoreLess
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