Mother, Mother A Novel by Koren Zailckas

Author:Koren Zailckas
Language: eng
Format: mobi
ISBN: 9780007547388
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2013-01-01T05:00:00+00:00

VIOLET HURST

CORINNA PICKED up the phone, as she had made the scarred telephone booths her second room. She stood there for hours, talking to Leatherboy, despite repeated warnings from the nurse on call (“Corinna, girl, you should be charging by the hour”). “Violet!” she called, holding up the receiver. “Papa bear!”

Violet felt her stomach turn over as she walked to the phone booth. She couldn’t stand the thought of a repeat of the conversation they’d had at visiting hours. “Hello?”

“Violet.”

“Yeah, Dad. What’s up?”

“I was hoping—” He took a deep sip of something, hopefully something whose strength wasn’t measured by volume. “I need you to tell me more about this CPS investigation.”

“I’ll give you Nick Flores’s number. But I’ve already told you everything I know.”

“You haven’t told me much of anything.”

“I don’t know anything! I am begging you, talk to Mom directly! I can’t be your go-between!” Violet tried to steady herself with one of the deep, nasal breaths from her meditation DVDs. “I’m in a locked ward, Dad. I can’t go anywhere. Unless you’re going to finally get me out of here.”

There was silence on the line.

“Dad? Are you going to help me get out of here or not?”

“I’m trying, Violet. But I don’t know how you expect me to help you when you’re withholding information from me.”

“Mom is the one withholding information. You need to stand up to her.”

“You and I are very different people, Violet. I don’t see that rocking the boat is going to help matters much.”

“It’s not rocking the boat, Dad. It’s called communication. You’re allowed to ask questions. Other people do it all the time. Other people don’t live in fear of someone else’s reactions. They don’t relentlessly stress out about getting into trouble.”

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