The New Order by Karen E. Bender

Author:Karen E. Bender
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: General Fiction
Publisher: Counterpoint
Published: 2018-08-19T16:00:00+00:00

In the moment that Carol stared at her phone, trying to push the buttons that would erase this, everything, but would not, before she saw the Twitter account that held the naked pictures of Mary Grace, sent all over the world, before Carol heard her cell phone begin to buzz, over and over, before she felt herself begin to fall, she thought this: that the advisors in the limo were the ones who had understood her most of all, that in all of the long days inside that car with them, the constant low, sourness of their breath, they had known everything about her, and they had believed in this simple fact—that she could save their country, that Mrs. America was good. She could not explain to her daughter that America needed her, Carol Forrest. It was the thought that calmed her when she could not ask her husband to come home, when she could not comfort her son, when she had come upon her mother weeping in the dark, when she did not know what to say to her daughter. She sat in the limo, alone, looking out the tinted windows, at the stands of pine. She did not know how to convince her daughter this was the only thing that was true in this world, that this was the one fact she understood—that the advisors and the voters in the audience were correct, that she was Mrs. America, and that she, Carol Forrest, was not like everyone else.

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