The book Borrower
“It would bring to mind too efficiently the year she’d been lent it. She neither opened it nor returned it to glittery Jeremiah, proprietor of holes in the air, of scooped-out places where Deborah once lived. She didn’t want to tell Jeremiah who Berry was, though he’d want to know. Jeremiah was hard. Berry was hard.
Peter and Mary Grace were gone. Teaching had ended for the summer. Even the pottery store would close for two weeks in August, and in July business was slow and Ruben worked fewer ho...urs. She would have liked money for housecleaners and house painters, but she liked time, too, time to paint the first-floor hall and clean; yet she did little. She carried a portable phone around. Stevie came home from school, listened to her speculate on where Peter might be, then returned to college for a summer job leading tours of prospective students. He said, I like telling people things they don’t know. I like walking back-wards.
When the four of them had toured colleges, Peter’s senior year in high school—a time that felt tiny and distant, as if seen through a long tube—Peter had convinced his little brother, Stevie, that students auditioned to be guides by walking back-wards; he’d enacted elaborate tryouts in motel rooms at night.MoreLess
Peter and Mary Grace were gone. Teaching had ended for the summer. Even the pottery store would close for two weeks in August, and in July business was slow and Ruben worked fewer ho...urs. She would have liked money for housecleaners and house painters, but she liked time, too, time to paint the first-floor hall and clean; yet she did little. She carried a portable phone around. Stevie came home from school, listened to her speculate on where Peter might be, then returned to college for a summer job leading tours of prospective students. He said, I like telling people things they don’t know. I like walking back-wards.
When the four of them had toured colleges, Peter’s senior year in high school—a time that felt tiny and distant, as if seen through a long tube—Peter had convinced his little brother, Stevie, that students auditioned to be guides by walking back-wards; he’d enacted elaborate tryouts in motel rooms at night.MoreLess
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