Minerva Clark Gives Up The Ghost (2007) - Plot & Excerpts
Lozano’s air-conditioned office and tromped back down the hill, crossing Twenty-fifth Avenue, where the car was parked, and on to Twenty-third Avenue. Mrs. Dagnitz bounced along, chattering about how this part of the city always reminded her of a college town, with its huge old three-story houses and wraparound porches. Most of the tiny front yards had been turned into flower gardens, overrun with yellow daisies and spiky purple flowers, and rosebushes that someone had paid a lot of attention to until several weeks ago, when the temperature pushed into the hundreds and people lost the drive to do anything but go in search of air-conditioning. Mrs. Dagnitz and Mark Clark walked ahead of me in lockstep. Mark Clark always matched his step to the person he was walking with. One day I hoped to see him walk down the street with an old and proper Japanese lady wearing a kimono and high-heeled flip-flops—then what would he do? They swung down the hill, chattering about the best airline to fly to New York and about frequent-flier miles from some credit card.
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