How Other People Make Love by Thisbe Nissen

Author:Thisbe Nissen [Nissen, Thisbe]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: FIC044000 Fiction / Contemporary Women, FIC019000 Fiction / Literary, FIC029000 Fiction / Short Stories (single Author)
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Published: 2021-04-02T00:00:00+00:00

John left to smoke a cigarette, making room for Grandma Maxine to lean provocatively over from the next table. “Georgie,” she said. “How’s my Georgie these days? There’s a man in your life, my beauty?” She nudged her head toward John as he headed out the barn door.

“Not exactly, Grandma.”

Maxine’s eyes lit at the intimation of intrigue. “Oh there is someone, now, isn’t there? Come on, Georgie, make an old woman’s day. Who’s your fella?”

“No fella, Gram. Sorry.”

“No? A beautiful girl like you should have a companion. Now, I know someone, maybe you’d like him . . . ? A man from the synagogue, very clean . . . You’d like me to introduce you, maybe . . . ?”

Georgia was exhausted. She felt like a boiled turnip. “Actually I already have a companion.”

Maxine’s mouth opened in an O of joy. “You’re holding out on me, Georgie! Come, tell me about your friend . . .”

Georgia sighed. “Maybe when you get a little more liberal, Grandma . . .”

“What’s not liberal? I voted for Gore . . .”

Georgia chuckled again. “A little more open-minded then . . .”

Maxine’s face froze. She leaned closer, laid a hand on Georgia’s arm, and spoke as though wary of spies. She said, “He’s not a Jew?”

“Not a Jew,” Georgia repeated. “Not even a he, Gram.”

Maxine’s brow furrowed in confusion. “A girl?” she said, and then her eyes widened in surprise.

Georgia nodded. So this was how it felt to come out to your grandmother. She’d gone too far to backtrack now. “She’s British. I met her when I studied in London last spring. She’s in med school there.”

Maxine’s eyebrows shot up, her chin drew back into the folds of her neck, and her face spread in pleasure. “Oh,” she said. “A doctor!”

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