The Tin Horse: a Novel
“And the rifts that opened in my family that night never closed.
Zayde had moved to Sonya’s once before, after Barbara goaded him to make the tin animals, but he’d returned just two weeks later, complaining that Sonya chased after him with the Hoover anytime he walked on her fancy carpet, and the only subject Leo ever talked about was his dyspepsia—and no wonder, with Sonya’s cooking. This time was different. Zayde didn’t come back. Not that he broke with Papa completely, the way he’d done with ...Pearl. He still came over and ate dinner with us one or two nights a week, and we saw him at family gatherings. But it wasn’t the same as having Zayde living with us. I don’t know if Harriet, born that June, ever heard his stories.
And it’s lucky I’d paid attention when Zayde took care of the fig tree in the yard. A few days after he left, I noticed the leaves beginning to wilt, and I hurried to water the tree, thinking at the time that I didn’t want Zayde to come home to a dying tree.MoreLess
Zayde had moved to Sonya’s once before, after Barbara goaded him to make the tin animals, but he’d returned just two weeks later, complaining that Sonya chased after him with the Hoover anytime he walked on her fancy carpet, and the only subject Leo ever talked about was his dyspepsia—and no wonder, with Sonya’s cooking. This time was different. Zayde didn’t come back. Not that he broke with Papa completely, the way he’d done with ...Pearl. He still came over and ate dinner with us one or two nights a week, and we saw him at family gatherings. But it wasn’t the same as having Zayde living with us. I don’t know if Harriet, born that June, ever heard his stories.
And it’s lucky I’d paid attention when Zayde took care of the fig tree in the yard. A few days after he left, I noticed the leaves beginning to wilt, and I hurried to water the tree, thinking at the time that I didn’t want Zayde to come home to a dying tree.MoreLess
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