At first I felt sorry for this woman, not being able to conceive. Then I was getting angry with her for not wanting to adopt, felt she was always poor, poor me! All these things have happend to her, what else can. So much was thrown at her during her lifetime, but she lives on! I cried joyful...
The sensitivity with which Handford writes this story is amazing. The key character is complex and consumed with wanting a family but cannot get pregnant. While she has a wonderful marriage and a great sister whose daughter she cherishes, she feels that her life is incomplete and dismal without...
Quiet, except for the heavy, ceaseless thunder of the jet pushing through the air. In the galley, the flight attendants chatted soundlessly with each other, flipped through magazines. I breathed carefully and quietly, as though I were hiding from an intruder in the bedroom closet. For a few minut...