“Several times that afternoon my mother and Vivie walked through the living room, past the double doors leading to Bec’s sunporch, and they’d glance at us from the doorway with curiosity, even a longing, or so it seemed to me,… — Elizabeth Poliner Copy Share Image
“It hadn't changed. To grasp that constancy was the point of roaming, room by room, through the cottage. And once we'd been assured of… — Elizabeth Poliner Copy Share Image
“Of the rules in this house, spoken and unspoken, ancient and new, religious and secular, visible and invisible - of the mob of rules… — Elizabeth Poliner Copy Share Image
“Several times that afternoon my mother and Vivie walked through the living room, past the double doors leading to Bec’s sunporch, and they’d glance… — Elizabeth Poliner Copy Share Image