![]() ![]() Travel to the Carolinas to a tall white inn, tippy as a cake with balconies, shutters, netting, and flutter, where crystal chandeliers bejewel every room and on the bedside table a swan carafe of water on the pillow, chocolates in foil. They should pack tonight, take the train tomorrow. They’ve sold the house the estate is settled. They are simply happier than they have been in a long, long time. Probably they have been happy together before, but Julia is often melancholy and Claire is pessimistic, so it has been a long time since- or never!ĭon’t be ridiculous, Julia says. The river beneath them is tan, not brown, and the sky overhead is true blue. The sisters wear matching dot dresses, green ground for Claire for Julia, brown. How cheerful they appear against the passing scene in navy, gray, or khaki. Swipe her away stay with the girls on the bridge in the high wind in the summer of 1970. Their father abandoned them years ago their mother rages past, shrill ghost. In the windy city they sway on a bridge and let the wind get under their dresses, Claire and Julia, happy. Christine Schutt's previous books include Florida, a National Book Award finalist, and All Souls, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. The 18 stories center around corrupt familial love, intimacy, longing, and danger. ![]() The following is from Christine Schutt's story collection, Pure Hollywood. ![]()
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