The Twenty-Seventh Letter of the Alphabet by Kim Adrian

Author:Kim Adrian [Adrian, Kim]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: BIO026000 Biography & Autobiography / Personal Memoirs, FAM001000 Family & Relationships / Abuse / General, PSY038000 Psychology / Psychopathology / Addiction
ISBN: 978-1-4962-1026-5
Publisher: UNP - Nebraska
Published: 2018-07-31T16:00:00+00:00

Lundbergs

After my father stabbed Richie, things got awkward, socially speaking, for my parents, so they decided to move. We’d always rented, but this time they bought a house a couple of towns away. Because it was the middle of the school year, they asked the parents of friends of ours—the Lundbergs—if they’d take Tracy and me to live with them until June, when school let out. I had been close for a long time with the two oldest children, Lily and Lila, and Tracy was friends with their younger sister, a beautiful black-haired girl whose name I now forget, though I know it started with an L because all the Lundbergs’ children’s names started with L. The five of us slept upstairs in a cozy refurbished attic outfitted with many beanbag chairs and green wall-to-wall carpeting that smelled, curiously, of mashed peas, Tracy and I in sleeping bags on the floor.

We ate dinner with the Lundbergs Monday through Thursday, then got picked up by our parents for the weekend on Friday afternoon. Although their food was less delicious than ours and much of it came out of cans, nobody seemed to mind. After dinner the father sat in an armchair to work on his duck decoys. The mother knit. Nobody mentioned what our father had done except once—an offhand comment by the brother that was quickly hushed. Still, I never breathed easy in the Lundbergs’ house, and I know why: deep down, I resented both their charity and their happiness. And over the months I grew colder and colder toward my friends, even the lanky, good-hearted Lily.

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