No One Tells Everything (2008)
No One Tells Everything
“The sky is cornflower blue, the air velvety from pollen and evaporating dew. Despite her botched run-in with Caroline, Grace wakes up feeling energized by purpose, newly committed. Her notebook pages bulge with scrawled notes, and she feels buoyed by the possibility of discovery, the rightness of her search.
She finds her mother in back of the house, kneeling between rows of tomato plants.
“Do you need any help?” Grace asks.
“Oh hi, Grace,” her mother says, sitting up on her heels. She brushes ...the hair off her face and unknowingly smears dirt across her forehead. “No. I’m okay.”
“What’s Dad up to?”
“He’s at the slides again. He got out the tray from our famous canoe trip.”
“The photos make it look like we had fun,” Grace says and laughs.
“Oh come on, we had fun,” her mother says, her eyes hopeful as she stands and stretches her back.
“Yeah, I guess,” Grace says, wondering what her mother has chosen to remember.
Her father had been in a sour mood the morning they set out in the car for a river in southern Ohio, hungover and distant behind his aviator sunglasses, his hair lightened from the summer sun.MoreLess
She finds her mother in back of the house, kneeling between rows of tomato plants.
“Do you need any help?” Grace asks.
“Oh hi, Grace,” her mother says, sitting up on her heels. She brushes ...the hair off her face and unknowingly smears dirt across her forehead. “No. I’m okay.”
“What’s Dad up to?”
“He’s at the slides again. He got out the tray from our famous canoe trip.”
“The photos make it look like we had fun,” Grace says and laughs.
“Oh come on, we had fun,” her mother says, her eyes hopeful as she stands and stretches her back.
“Yeah, I guess,” Grace says, wondering what her mother has chosen to remember.
Her father had been in a sour mood the morning they set out in the car for a river in southern Ohio, hungover and distant behind his aviator sunglasses, his hair lightened from the summer sun.MoreLess
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