Western Wind (2016)
“Her parents would know she was offended—if they didn’t already—but these days, it would hardly matter to them.
She felt listless, as she sometimes did on one of the steely cold days in late November when she came home from school after dull hours in the classroom and could find nothing she wanted to eat in the refrigerator.
In the early dark of such an afternoon, as they met in the kitchen, her mother had told her about the baby that was coming. Elizabeth had felt her knees go weak. The headlights of a car sweeping across the windows had made her blink and cover her face with her hand. Her mother had asked, “Elizabeth? Are you all right?”
She knew she ought to begin reading one of the books on the table upstairs. But, instead, she went out of the cottage into the bright afternoon. She was stuck on the island; she might as well get to know it.
Instead of going past the outhouse to reach the Herkimer place and the cemetery beyond it, she followed the shoreline to that sandy point where ...the birds came to sit at sunset.MoreLess
She felt listless, as she sometimes did on one of the steely cold days in late November when she came home from school after dull hours in the classroom and could find nothing she wanted to eat in the refrigerator.
In the early dark of such an afternoon, as they met in the kitchen, her mother had told her about the baby that was coming. Elizabeth had felt her knees go weak. The headlights of a car sweeping across the windows had made her blink and cover her face with her hand. Her mother had asked, “Elizabeth? Are you all right?”
She knew she ought to begin reading one of the books on the table upstairs. But, instead, she went out of the cottage into the bright afternoon. She was stuck on the island; she might as well get to know it.
Instead of going past the outhouse to reach the Herkimer place and the cemetery beyond it, she followed the shoreline to that sandy point where ...the birds came to sit at sunset.MoreLess
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