The World Without You
““Come on,” she says. “Let’s eat.” If they wait until Amram comes back they may never eat again. Yet even as she’s thinking this, she cranes her neck and looks out the window, hoping to see his car.“Pavlov’s bell is ringing,” Marilyn says. She bangs a fork against the kettle, but all it makes is a dull thud.“I hope Pavlov could hear well,” Lily says.“Certainly better than me,” says Noelle. She set the table earlier, but she put the knife on the left and the fork on the right and the spoon on the... inside of the fork, knowing as she did so that she was making a mistake but not sure how to correct it. It didn’t matter, she told herself. As long as everyone had silverware. But it felt symbolic of something larger. If there was a right way and a wrong way to do things, she could be counted on to choose the wrong way.“Where’s Abba?” Yoni asks.“He’ll be back soon,” Noelle says, doing her best to sound convincing.“Where did he go?”“Out,” she says. “To run some errands.”“What errands?”MoreLess
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