We were the Mulvaneys by Joyce Carol Oates

Author:Joyce Carol Oates [Oates, Joyce Carol]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Farm life, Families, Rape victims, Family, Family Life, Fiction, Literary, Rape victims - Family relationships, New York (State), General, Domestic fiction, Teenage girls
ISBN: 9780452282827
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 1997-11-15T06:00:00+00:00

"Wait. Those incompletes are on your transcripts now as F's, aren't they? If you didn't make them up."

Marianne sat wordless, plucking at her hair.

Patrick sighed heavily, removing his glasses. Rubbed his eyes roughly. But what point in anger, really. Wouldn't interfere ulit/t your sister. If I were you.

Strange, Patrick thought. He, Patrick Mulvaney, was this young woman's brother: they'd been brother-and-sister through all of their conscious lives: each was more closely related to the other genetically than either was to either of their parents. Yet he believed he scarcely knew Marianne at all. He loved her, but scarcely knew her. Members of a family who've lived together in the heated intensity of family life scarcely know one another. Life is too head-on, too close-up. That was the paradox. That was the bent, perplexing thing. Exactly the opposite of what you'd expect. For of course you never give such relationships a thought, living them. To give a thought-to take thoug/it----is a function of dissociation, distance. You can't exercise memory until you've removed yourself from memory's source.

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