Taft by Ann Patchett

Author:Ann Patchett [Patchett, Ann]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Contemporary, General Fiction, Adult, cookie429, Extratorrents, Kat
ISBN: 9780613175449
Publisher: Bt Bound
Published: 1994-10-01T00:00:00+00:00

Taft doesn't like going to Memphis. He doesn't like his wife's sister or her husband. He doesn't like the thought of their family being anything more than the four of them. Lily is always talking about family, family this and that. "We should do more things together as a family," she says, and Taft wonders what the hell she's talking about. He doesn't see any way that their two families link up. Lily has her eye on his kids. That's what it's all about. Never had any of her own and now she wants to get a hold of his. She's always asking Fay and Carl to come up for holidays or spend the summer with them. Virginia told him her sister couldn't have children. Or maybe it was Calvin. There was something wrong with one of them and it showed. Whenever Taft walks through their house he thinks, You can't have carpet this pale and expect to raise a family on it. Of course, it wouldn't be bad having that kind of money. He doesn't like looking at Lily's jewelry all the time. He thinks she could wear a little less when they're around, or give a piece of it to her sister. One sister raises two children on next to nothing, keeps a job and a clean house and is lucky to get a nice sweater for Christmas. The other one goes out to lunch at the country club while somebody else gets bused in to do her vacuuming and she gets something called a tennis bracelet for Christmas which she never takes off. She doesn't play tennis, either.

When Virginia and Taft were first going out Lily used to drive to Knoxville to study in the medical library because she'd read in a magazine that that was the best way to catch yourself a doctor. She didn't know the pharmacology students studied there too. But this one had a family business, four generations of Martin-Quick pharmacists. And he was from Memphis, which was far enough away from Coalfield to forget about it altogether. There went Lily. It wasn't until Fay and Carl were born and there were no babies for Lily and Calvin that they even started hearing from them regularly.

Taft and Virginia and Fay and Carl are all going to Memphis. Carl is going to wrestle in the state championship. Virginia says it's killing two birds with one stone. Taft usually manages to get out of the trips to see her sister, but he would go anywhere his son was wrestling, even to Memphis.

Taft doesn't like going to Memphis. He doesn't like the look of the place. It's too flat. The river is dirty. He's been sitting in the shadow of the Smoky Mountains since the day he was horn. The mountains, he thinks, are beautiful. He doesn't like the weather, which never seems to cool off. Every breeze is choked with humidity. It's like trying to walk through water. The people are too rough, too forward, everybody knowing how much money everyone else has and where the money came from.

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