The Ghost's Child (2008)
“Her mother would only laugh deliciously, as a kind of revenge. She could not tell her adventurous father, because he would be pained, and believe that her troubles were a fault of his own. The iron man, always quick to criticize, would be loud in his contempt of Feather. In the iron man’s world, a healthy young fellow did not spend his days staring moonily out to sea. So Maddy kept her unhappiness a secret to herself. She didn’t want Feather blamed and hounded just for being who he was. And yet..., if he were different, things would not be so bad. Everything would be blissful, Maddy believed, if only Feather could forget who he was.
He walked around the garden as if the pickets were a row of steel bars. He dug the soil and cleaned the birdbath and swept leaves from the door. The sight of him dutifully filling his days made Maddy feel sunken and hollow. She remembered the zoos she had visited on her hunt for beauty — the wolves pacing stone, the waxen starfish behind glass. The animals had been netted from jungles and plains, the sea creatures scooped from the waves.MoreLess
He walked around the garden as if the pickets were a row of steel bars. He dug the soil and cleaned the birdbath and swept leaves from the door. The sight of him dutifully filling his days made Maddy feel sunken and hollow. She remembered the zoos she had visited on her hunt for beauty — the wolves pacing stone, the waxen starfish behind glass. The animals had been netted from jungles and plains, the sea creatures scooped from the waves.MoreLess
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