Frame Structures by Susan Howe

Author:Susan Howe [Howe, Susan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-8112-2376-8
Publisher: New Directions
Published: 2014-04-03T16:00:00+00:00

Maimie was my mother’s nickname in Ireland, in the United States people call her Molly. She says that if our father’s mother had been around in 1935 he would never have been allowed to marry her because in those days, in Boston, being Irish meant she wasn’t good enough. It went without saying if the Howes were snobs Quincys were worse because it was through Quincys the Boston Howes were related to a President of the United States, a President of Harvard College, two mayors of Boston, etc., etc., but that was long ago. Now there was no money and only one male Quincy left, Cousin Edmund, who did nothing, some of the time in Italy, some of the time in an indescribably gloomy apartment near the Charles River. Mabel and Helen, my grandmother’s two older sisters, were still alive, but they lost their proper names when they married, and during the 1940s both of them were rapidly losing their wits. My mother often refers to the Quincys as “innocents.” Not American cultural innocents, worthless in a scheming world in the sense of being fools, but honest. No, she means nuts. “All the Quincy china is cracked” is still one of her best aphorisms.

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