When She Was Good (2011)
“Every once in a while he would stop and sit up on the fender, with his knees to his chest, swinging a Coke bottle back and forth in front of his eyes. “The war hero is thinking about his future,” Eleanor would say, and the very idea caused her to snort out loud. Roy, however, appeared to pay no attention to either of them, even when Eleanor rapped on the window and ducked away. As the weather grew warmer, he would sometimes be seen slouched down in the back of the Hudson, his legs thrown up ove...r the front seat, reading a book he had taken out of the library. Ellie would call out the window, “Roy, where in Sweden are you going to live?” To which his answer would generally be a loud slam of the rear door of the car. “Roy’s reading all about Sweden. Half the farmers around here came running from there. He wants to go there.”
“Really?” asked Lucy. She did not take offense, because her own grandfather who had been a farmer had come from Norway.
“Well, I hope he goes somewhere,”MoreLess
“Really?” asked Lucy. She did not take offense, because her own grandfather who had been a farmer had come from Norway.
“Well, I hope he goes somewhere,”MoreLess
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