"You must come from Hog-Norton, where pigs go to church and play the organ." In Tucson, it was clear that there was nobody overlooking us all. When I'd crossed into Rocky Mountain Time, I had set my watch back two hours and got thrown into the future. Mattie's place seemed homey enough, but living in the hustle-bustle of downtown Tucson was like moving to a foreign country I'd never heard of. "I guess I've had a peculiar life," I said.
"I have experience in housecleaning, x-rays, urine tests, and red blood counts. Between the two rainbows the sky was brighter than everywhere else, like a white sheet lit from the back. There was a rainbow over the mountains behind the city, and over that another rainbow with the colors upside down. The sun came out even before the hail stopped. "I go to Kentucky every year to get my license plate." I didn't like his looks. "You from out of town?" he asked after a while, eying my car.
His T-Shirt said VISITOR FROM ANOTHER PLANET. Her feet hurt and she couldn't find a comfortable place in the bed. She thought about the baby playing in waves of her blood, on the smooth, dark beach of her insides. Lou Ann decided to go and shake out the Mickey Mouse bank, in which she had been saving pennies to buy a washing machine for the baby's diapers. Ruiz," the Extra Terrestrial said half-heartedly. "You better give us something or we'll have to soap your windows, Mrs.
She didn't miss the books so much as she was hurt by the ugly empty spaces left behind, like missing teeth, the books on either side falling and crowding into the gaps. Jolene looked like the part of the movie you don't want to watch. Missy was what everyone called me, not that it was my name, but because when I was three supposedly I stamped my foot and told my own mother not to call me Marietta but Miss Marietta, as I had to call all the people including children in the houses where she worked Miss this or Mister that, and so she did from that day forward.
My second Barbara Kingsolver experience after enjoying Demon Copperhead earlier this year.
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