Ballad Of The Black And Blue Mind (2015) - Plot & Excerpts
She had arrived several weeks after the start of the second semester. She had brought with her two suitcases, a duffel bag of laundry, her bear that had shared her childhood bed, a book of Sylvia Plath poems that she always carried in her backpack, and a glazed look in her eyes. Her mother was afraid it was drugs. Her father was afraid it was alcohol. Anna glared at her parents. They had no faith in her. She was not using drugs and she was not drinking, no more than her dorm mates at least. She had come home, she said, to stay. That was all she would say. Anna’s mother, Beth, was on the faculty at St. John’s University. She had published two well-regarded books on Virginia Woolf. Her father, Fritz, was a biographer. His interest was American history, the Civil War in particular. His own father had escaped from Vienna and his mother had spent her early childhood in a small town in Cuba, where in an unlikely migration many Yiddish speakers had washed ashore. But it was the Civil War that held his attention.
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