Pearl in a Cage (2012)
“Months could pass and not a call made on Gertrude’s time, then some star moved out of line and they were back at her door again, day or night. She delivered another Duffy on the night following Jenny’s accident, delivered it in a shed not fit for dogs, but plenty of the flea-riddled mongrels wandering in and out. Clarry Dobson’s wife went into labour that same night. She wanted a girl and ended up with another boy. On the Tuesday, one of the tree fellers came to get her. Big Henry King, a champ...ion wood cutter, who could fell a tree faster drunk than most could do it sober must have been sober. His axe had slipped, sliced through his boot and damn near split his big toe in two. Big Henry’s foot hadn’t seen water in a year or two and his house had seen less. The Kings were a cut above the Duffy family — they didn’t own flea-riddled dogs, though Henry’s wife may have made up the shortfall. Gertrude refused to go inside so Henry hopped outside and sat on the crate he used as a kitchen chair.MoreLess
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