‘Jesus,’ I said. ‘At least give me a whiskey.”A spoon full of medicine makes the sugar go down.’ She laughed then, and I sat down at the kitchen table.I looked out the window. I heard the ice cubes rattle around a tumbler. The moonlight stumbled over the window sill and across the [...]
She looked sideways down the bar away from me. I looked down the bar over her head. There were handsome young men and the women they bought drinks for lined up two deep down the bar, and the young men who wished to purchase drinks lined up. Hana swung back to me.
‘Hello [...]
‘You wreck everything,’ she said to Woolcott. ‘You wreck everything.’ He did not pretend it was any good, there was nothing to gain. Nothing at all.
‘Read any good books lately?’
‘No, I haven’t read anything.’
Woolcott watched her move about the bar. He sat at the bar and watched her in the mirror [...]
This book is highly entertaining, and I would recommend it to anyone who asked for a recommendation. Sarah Vowell is a fine voice actress, and an even finer writer. And well, if you cannot agree with that statement, well, step across that line. I will warn you, you will be lesser.
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