True Crimes: A Family Album by Kathryn Harrison

Author:Kathryn Harrison
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Biography & Autobiography, Essays, Literary Collections, Personal Memoirs, Social Science
ISBN: 9781400063482
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2016-04-05T04:00:00+00:00

My job, this winter morning in Los Angeles, is to remove the tinsel that issues from the tiny, pink, puckered assholes of six white kittens that appear completely untroubled by their plight. Not so my grandmother, who is in hysterics.

“Help!” she cries. “Help! Help! It will cut their intestines to ribbons! Please! I beg of you!” Having chased and corralled them into the living room, where the tree lies incumbent, she collapses, breathless, on the frayed chintz sofa. Among the tattered presents, whose wrappings and ribbons have been clawed and chewed, one kitten sits swallowing more tinsel. The five others whisk among chair legs and over the coffee table, trailed by what looks disconcertingly like the silver streamers that decorated the handlebars of my first bicycle.

From a distance, the impression given by the excreted icicles is that the strands of tinsel are unaffected by their passage through the feline digestive tract. In fact, the tinsel looks the same as it did when hanging from the upright tree: silver and shiny and, well, just as tinselly as tinsel that hasn’t been eaten and eliminated. But, worried that a closer inspection might render this opinion false, I refuse to heed my grandmother’s stricken pleas.

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