Sons And Daughters Of Ease And Plenty (2016) - Plot & Excerpts
On the last day of summer, the lurk of school at their doorstep, Cricket and the boys put their bathing suits on and spread towels all over the yard. The Boston heat was a blanket over everything. They brought magazines outside. Cricket had her first beauty magazine, found on the beach on the island. Everything she had not known to worry about yet was contained within—pimples and periods and hand-holding and a flatter tummy and shaving and dancing with boys. Her body was still little-girl and would be for several years—she was nine—but she could feel the presence of that cliff in the distance. The twins at six were still deep in childhood’s safe hold. She studied the shapes of the teenagers in the pages and the spread of five girls in bikinis. How could she ever make that transformation? The magazine was not a map or a comfort—only a catalogue of concerns. When she opened it each time it was with anticipation, but by the time she closed it the only feeling left was shame.
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