The Watery Part of the World (2011)
“Whaley was reading aloud her Norfolk grocery store prices. To Maggie this noise was as closely known as the roll of surf on the beach. Something settled so deep inside she hardly heard it, though her sister, to read her prices, trumped up a special voice, frilly ball dress compared to her usual wrinkled housecoat drawl.
The way her sister put on aggravated the life out of Maggie. Whaley’d sat in the same pew at the same little school Maggie had and learned from the same old mildew-ravaged books.... They’d read aloud for the same succession of not-long-for-this-island schoolteachers the very same sentences that children off island doubtless mumbled without intent or comprehension, because what they smacked of, these teach-you-to-read sentences, was a world known and taken for granted by children everywhere except for Yaupon and the few left-behind places like it. Daddy’s automobiles chugged up the driveway in these sentences, and snowstorms piled up and sleds navigated the piles of snow.MoreLess
The way her sister put on aggravated the life out of Maggie. Whaley’d sat in the same pew at the same little school Maggie had and learned from the same old mildew-ravaged books.... They’d read aloud for the same succession of not-long-for-this-island schoolteachers the very same sentences that children off island doubtless mumbled without intent or comprehension, because what they smacked of, these teach-you-to-read sentences, was a world known and taken for granted by children everywhere except for Yaupon and the few left-behind places like it. Daddy’s automobiles chugged up the driveway in these sentences, and snowstorms piled up and sleds navigated the piles of snow.MoreLess
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