She doesn't look up from the silver salver, onto which she now has stuck four small pieces of green putty. She secures the stem of a huge ivy leaf into each piece of putty so there appears a cross of leaves against the blue silver.
... us borrowing a few from her centerpiece,β the aunt said, carefully boring two holes in the giraffe's white head with a fork tine and pushing the stamens in, the horns hilariously long and lopping about like bells on a jester's hat.
"Latiolais is as close to Alice Munro as a writer can get, but with a more modern edge."--Los Angeles Times
... right? That's Raymond Shaw's mother who says that in The Manchurian Candidate,β Luke says, βand one of those boys just happens to be a United States senator, right, Stan?β Luke has observed many times that Stan enjoys the physical ...
Together these stories reflect and refract one another, illuminating a poignant, unflinching portrait of loss and the search for identity in its wake.