Mrs. Kimble by Jennifer Haigh

Author:Jennifer Haigh
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: General, Fiction
ISBN: 9780061749858
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2003-02-18T05:00:00+00:00

Summer came.

Joan lay awake a long time, restless despite the sleeping pills, the Valium for her nerves, the Midol for her menstrual cramps. Since the miscarriage her periods had been agony. “It’ll pass,” her gynecologist had assured her. She was in the early stages of menopause; in another year her cycles would stop altogether.

Rain nicked the windowpanes; the shadow of the date palm darkened her husband’s face. A face, by now, as familiar as her own. They’d celebrated their second anniversary that spring.

Ken stirred; the ceiling fan blew a lock of hair across his forehead. He was always so careful about his hair. She imagined he resembled his father: the blue eyes, the straight nose. His mother would have been small and dark, with a round behind and a broad shelf of bosom. Like Joan’s own mother, the original Ava; like her aunt Cookie. It was the way all Jewish women seemed to end up, the way Joan herself was starting to look. She’d gained weight and didn’t care, eight pounds from her brief pregnancy and ten more besides.

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