Gracie Faltrain Gets It Right (Finally) (2008) - Plot & Excerpts
It’s much better to help them from a distance. ‘I still don’t understand,’ I say to the kids I’m playing cards with this afternoon. ‘What are you, stupid?’ Foster Williams asks. Foster Williams always asks me if I’m stupid even though I’ve told him I have one of the highest IQs in the state for my age. ‘If you put the same card down then it’s canasta.’ He shakes his head. ‘It’s still your turn.’ I thought canasta would be better than Scrabble. We stopped playing that last Friday because the only words the kids wanted to spell were ones that I didn’t think Janet would want on the board. ‘There.’ I put a card down. Foster shakes his head. ‘Another dumb move. Two wins to Foster Williams,’ he says, and shuffles again. A girl my age called Tracy laughs. She looks at me with smokey-lined eyes and perfectly messy hair. I push up my glasses and look back. ‘Nice skirt,’ she says in the same voice Susan would use. Who needs to go to New York? I’m in a city where I don’t belong every day.
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