A Song for Nettie Johnson by Gloria Sawai

Author:Gloria Sawai [Sawai, Gloria]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Literary, Short Stories (Single Author), General, epub, ebook, QuarkXPress
ISBN: 9781550507133
Google: Sg-SLYCCaHUC
Amazon: B00DSVVCP0
Barnesnoble: B00DSVVCP0
Goodreads: 16564017
Publisher: Coteau Books
Published: 2002-11-19T05:00:00+00:00

It’s quiet at the supper table. A fork clicks against a plate, her mother coughs, her father asks for the salt. Ingrid takes small bites of mashed potatoes.

She’s wearing a purple tam. She wears it at a slanted angle as she’s seen women in pictures wearing tams, pressed flat against the left side of her head and puffed out at the right.

“Maybe I won’t ask Jacobsons over for coffee,” her mother says, breaking the silence. “We can come right home after the Lenten service; it’s been a long day.”

“Will Freda be at the Lenten service?” Ingrid asks.

“Oh, I think so,” her mother says.

“That tam looks awfully good on you,” her father says. “It looks jaunty.”

“I don’t want to go if Freda’s there.”

“We won’t stay long,” her mother says. “We won’t visit.”

“Cute and jaunty,” her father says. “Very jaunty.”

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