Thank You for the Music by Jane McCafferty

Author:Jane McCafferty [McCafferty, Jane]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, General
ISBN: 9780062325501
Publisher: San Val
Published: 2004-01-01T05:00:00+00:00

BROTHER TO BROTHER

THE DAY HE FINDS A RAT behind a bag of potatoes in the kitchen cupboard is the day he calls his brother.

It was the second rat of his life in the house on Ratchet Street. He knew he should have never consented to live on Ratchet Street, which one of the wanting-life-to-be-fancier neighbors pronounced “Ra-Chay” Street. It was not Ra-Chay Street! Please! On Ratchet Street, a porch was always collapsing, rotten wood the outward manifestation of spiritual demise. A fat child without a coat always seemed to be out on the sidewalk, scratching his head, wiping his nose on his sleeve. The loose dogs were mangy with cold gray eyes. That kind of street.

He’d lived there eight years. His brother imagined life was a dream for him. Compared to what? Wasn’t that always the question? Well, compared to his brother’s life in Fishtown, life was glorious. He had, for instance, someone to love named Johnny. Johnny was a decently outraged historian and often spontaneously ordered out for Thai food. Johnny gave people nicknames. For instance, he called the man next door Besotted because the man had once asked him, “Did you know that God is besotted with you, even if you are a homosexual?” Now he liked it when Johnny said, “Besotted is out there watering his garden” or “Besotted parked his ugly car in our spot.” It felt like enough, sometimes, to live with a man who had named another man Besotted.

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