Nan's Story by Paige Farmer

Author:Paige Farmer
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub, azw3
Tags: (¯`'•.¸//(*_*)\\¸.•'´¯), General Fiction
ISBN: 9781477414736
Publisher: CreateSpace
Published: 2012-06-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 8

Nan first laid eyes on Eddie Sullivan just before Christmas, 1954. She was working a temporary job cashiering at JJ Newberry’s department store for the holiday season. It was hopping most of the time, sometimes preventing Nan from taking her break, but she never tired of working the register. She loved the feeling of the small round keys under the pads of her fingers and marveled at how a pull of the lever could calculate the total and change in a fraction of the time it would take her to in her head.

Her mother and Joe had been against the job, but she’d long since stopped caring about what they thought. She was nineteen and old enough to make her own decisions. She was tired of her mother advising her that she’d never find a decent husband if she didn’t put herself in the right places. Like the stuffy country club in Newcastle where Elsie and her new rich husband hung out? The one that didn’t let women on the golf course or black people on the property? Thanks, but no thanks Nan thought as she accepted her first meager paycheck.

It had only been a few months after Sam’s accident when Nan’s mother took the one and only job she’d ever have as a secretary at a law firm in town. Joe was a junior partner at the time and Nan remembered the utter shock she felt when her mother came home from work one afternoon a couple weeks after starting saying she had a date that evening. John, the last of her siblings still living at home, was working full time at the docks with Buddy and would be moving out of the house very soon. Arthur was enrolled in college full time and stayed on campus, so Nan was struggling to come to terms with the fact that only she and Elsie would be left living in the little house. What a joke on her that turned out to be.

Joe came to the door to fetch Elsie for their date that evening and Nan tried to keep the look of dismay off her face when the portly, well-dressed man with slicked back hair introduced himself. He gave Nan what she would come to dub his ‘grip ‘n grin’ handshake, a single pump and a flash of teeth, telling her she looked like her mother. Elsie sashayed down the stairs and out the door, returning home long after Nan had gone to bed. Less than a month later, Elsie invited Joe to dinner, along with Nan and her brothers. In the midst of stilted and stuttering conversation, their mother blew the lid off. She and Joe would be getting married in early November. Nan came to understand over the subsequent weeks that Joe’s firm was very successful and that money was about to have a profound impact on her world.

Despite looming winter, the renovations to the house began immediately upon Elsie and Joe’s return from their honeymoon. Before

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