The Confessions of Frances Godwin (2014)
“Ruthy, who’d taken a few days off, had gone back to work. I was glad for her support, but I was also glad to have Stella all to myself for a few days. I’d been reading to her, but she’d fallen asleep. The house was quiet. It seemed to me that we were living in a house where all the furniture had been covered with sheets to protect it from the light. Jimmy’s death was a grand piano. Stella’s miscarriage was a sofa on which no one sat. Stella’s lesbian lover was a barrister’s bookcase. I didn’t m...ind. Better Ruthy than Jimmy. Besides, Lois and I had experimented when we were rooming together for our freshman year in Belmont House at Knox. Stella going to mass on Sunday as if it were the most natural thing in the world? I saw going to mass as a big armoire. And Stella’s failure to call me after Paul’s death? This was huge, like a four-drawer lateral filing cabinet or a big stand-up desk, like Paul’s railroad desk. The question was, how to uncover these large pieces of furniture, pull off the sheets so that we could move around the apartment comfortably instead of on tiptoe.MoreLess
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