The Inseparables by Stuart Nadler

Author:Stuart Nadler
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Published: 2016-07-18T22:00:00+00:00

Lydia found sleep impossible. Her old bed felt uninviting. The linen chafed her. She changed the sheets, discovering in her closet the same cartoon-covered Sleeping Beauty bed kit that her father had picked out for her when she was younger, despite her grandmother’s constant protests about admiring princesses. These are not the ideals you should value, her grandmother had told her. Dynastic power, jewel worship, the reanimating capacities of Prince Charming’s lips—none of this will help you. Lydia was four years old. Alone with them now in the darkness, her stuffed animals seemed to regard her with some new scrutiny, as if they, too, had seen the picture and could not believe she’d done it.

In the morning she woke to the smell of her father’s smoke, a trail of it snaking its way up through the vents. She found him in the garage, with the door open to the neighborhood.

“Did I wake you?”

“Doesn’t matter,” she said.

“Did you sleep?”

“Not well,” she said. “You?”

“Not at all, really.”

“Upset?” she asked.

He pinched the end of his joint between his fingers until the cherry went out. “Your mother’s in love with our couples therapist,” he said.

Lydia nodded. “You know?”

“I know.”

“I don’t think ‘love’ is the right word,” she said.

He winced. “How long have you known?”

She shrugged. “Not long.”

“I don’t know what to do.”

“I don’t know either,” she said.

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