By Susan Minot
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"In this luminous tale of family members life--the first novel by way of Susan Minot, writer of the hugely acclaimed Evening--the seven Vincent youngsters keep on with their Catholic mom to Mass and spend Thanksgiving with their father's getting older mom and dad who come from an international of recent England privilege. As they get older, they meet with the puzzling lives of adults. Susan Minot writes with delicacy and an immense present for the main points that beautify household existence, and whilst tragedy moves she superbly mines the children's tenderness for every different, and their aching guardianship of what they have."
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Her voice is hushed. " dark and we whisper. " says Delilah. " "No," says Sherman breathlessly. " there. 16 We all laugh because we could never firefit in HIDING Standing in the hall, Mum opens the door to the linen closet and pulls the light-string. " The light falls across our shelves are stacks of bedcovers and white clean striped sheets and and pink "How about faces. On the rolled puffs, red towels, everything and folded and smelling of soap. " Quickly we all jumble and scramble around, bum- and knocking and bling cram ourselves Sherman makes whimpering inside.
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Hunch our shoulders on like We all Mum's wait for his footsteps on the But he stops by the TV room doorway. voice, far stairs. We hear 19 MONKEYS him rustling something, a bag crinkling, setting something the hall table, then crumpling up the bag he's bought, the down on and pitching doesn't he we all paper bag, taking out what — it in the wastebasket. " "Ssshhh," says freeze. He moves Gus says, "Why Mum like spitting and again — his footsteps turn and bang on the hollow threshold into the TV room where the rug pads the sound.