Mother Box and Other Tales by Blackman Sarah

Author:Blackman, Sarah [Blackman, Sarah]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781573668422
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Published: 2013-09-14T20:00:00+00:00

A Beautiful Girl, A Well Loved One

Then, one day, she went into the forest.

This was a surprise to no one. What is the surprise when a girl comes to no good? Maybe how is a point of interest, maybe when.

She was an only daughter, much beloved, and beautiful by all accounts. Her grandmother, who doted on her, said she looked just like her mother when her mother was that age. Her mother, who had a long, disfiguring scar fissuring her face, said she had unusual coloring, should always make the best of her coloring, pay attention to the light, pay attention to warming fall tones, stay away from blues, particularly ice blue, and also her hair, what nuanced hair!, people would pay good money for hair like that, people did. Every year, the girl's grandmother would tell her she looked just like her mother at that age, until one year she didn't and from this the girl surmised the age at which her mother received her ruinous scar. It was younger than she had expected. Many things were left unsaid between them but the girl was a child, beautiful and beloved, and the house they all three shared back then was so small there was nothing to do but sleep tucked together like spoons, trading places over the years as the grandmother shrunk and the girl grew and the mother wiped her one weeping eye over and over with the hem of her skirt.

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