Emma Donoghue Two-Book Bundle (2015) - Plot & Excerpts
They sold melatonin for jet lag and chromium picolinate for sugar cravings. There was chocolate-free chocolate and honey-pickled ginseng. In the next aisle, two huge young men debated whether powdered pearl would help them achieve definition. There were trays labelled JUICE-YOUR-OWN WHEATGRASS; Niniane stroked the tender stalks with one finger, then moved away in case she would be seen and made to pay. Sacks of one hundred per cent unbromated flour weighed down a shelf. She had never known that flour was bromated before. She wondered what harm she’d been done by thirty-four years of bromate. Or was it bromide? Or brome? Arthur used to drink echinacea, even though their mother called it one of his fancy American habits. It made him retch, but he swore he never got colds. Now Niniane was studying the little rolls of homeopathic tablets. One was for travel sickness and general nausea, another for sleeplessness and irritability. She hadn’t slept since the night before last. Or was it only yesterday?
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