The Difference Between You And Me (2012) - Plot & Excerpts
It smells like a pet store or a zoo: the yeasty, sawdusty odor of a caged animal and the nest it lives in. Involuntarily, Jesse backs up a step on the narrow porch to escape it, but Esther smiles her wide smile and says, “Hey, come in.” “Thanks,” says Jesse, and steps inside. It’s so dark inside Esther’s low-ceilinged house that it takes Jesse’s eyes a second to adapt. After a moment, she makes out, through an arched doorway to her left, a living room drenched in murk, thick brown shades pulled down over the windows, one small lamp casting a pool of stained yellow light in the far corner. The room is heaped—heaped—all over with piles and piles and piles of stuff, some of it reaching almost all the way to the ceiling. There are cascading stacks of newspapers, wads of fabric (clothes? sheets? tablecloths? towels?), windup toys, coffee mugs, leaning towers of paperback books, abandoned dishes, a stepladder, shoe boxes full of lightbulbs and extension cords, a porcelain figurine of two swans kissing, a toaster on top of a turned-off TV.
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