Tell Me Lies by Jennifer Crusie

Author:Jennifer Crusie [Crusie, Jennifer]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Humour, Adult, Romantic Suspense, Action Adventure Mystery & Detective
ISBN: 9780312640736
Google: JUZsHpXwcfwC
Amazon: B0057DAR08
Barnesnoble: B0057DAR08
Goodreads: 7309868
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 1998-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Anna had loaned Maddie her old station wagon (“I’m not going anywhere, you just take it”), and it was amazing how much better Maddie felt when she had a car again. It wasn’t that Frog Point was so huge that a car was necessary, it was more that having one gave her the illusion she could escape if she had to. She couldn’t, but at least the car made the idea plausible.

She definitely couldn’t escape her grandmother.

Grandma Lucille sat swathed in bilious sea green chiffon under peach-pink sheets in her pale peach-pink room, looking like a bad parody of the flapper she’d once been. Her shoe-polish black bob framed her withered pixie face where only her sharp little black eyes were the same as they’d once been, tiny, shrewd, and hard as obsidian. Maddie hadn’t inherited any of her gran’s advantages, she’d been told a thousand times sitting in this room, not her pretty face, not her adventurous spirit, not her kick-ass spunk. But since Gran had long ago become the biggest pain in the butt the family had ever known, Maddie wasn’t unduly upset by this lack of genetic similarity. “You wouldn’t believe how it was when I was growing up, Maddie,” her mother used to tell her when she was little. “She humiliated me. I would never do that to you.”

Looking at Gran now, Maddie sent a silent thank-you to her mother and renewed her determination to pass the same lack of scandal onto her daughter. The last thing she wanted to be was the Gran of her generation.

Although traits were supposed to skip a generation. And there was C.L. and the Point. If she kept on the way she was going, she’d definitely be the Gran of the nineties. She had to get a grip on her life. But first she had to get this visit over with. She crossed the room, ignoring her grandmother’s snarls that Maddie was putting on weight and looking her age, and parted the peach-pink linen-look drapes that led to her grandmother’s small terrace.

“Too much light.” Gran’s voice was scratchy and sharp. “Bad for my skin. Yours, too, but you’re hopeless.”

Maddie compromised on half-closed drapes, knowing if she’d left them closed, her grandmother would have moaned that there wasn’t enough light.

“So, Gran,” Maddie said brightly as she came to sit beside the bed. “How are you?”

“I’m ninety-five, how do you think I am?” her grandmother snapped.

You ‘re eighty-three, Maddie wanted to tell her, but she fought the impulse. Getting into an argument with Gran was the personal equivalent of a land war in Asia. “Well, I’m hoping you’re doing fine,” Maddie said. “You look wonderful.”

“That’s because I don’t go around sitting in bright sunlight like some people I know.” Gran leaned forward. “That Janet Biedemeyer next door? The woman’s a wreck. She looks like alligator luggage. Put a handle on that woman’s back, she could fly cargo. And she’s twenty years younger than I am if she’s a day. If I’d—” Gran stopped and squinted at Maddie.

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