The Gerbil Farmer's Daughter (2009) - Plot & Excerpts
I was sandwiched between my brother Donald and little Philip in his elbow-cracking plastic car seat. The windows were closed because of the cold, and my parents smoked with such relentless abandon that I glanced up from my book at one point and thought we were driving through fog. When it was too dark to read, I stared over the front seat at the headlights rolling like white beads over the hilly landscape and increasing in number as we drew closer to the East Coast. Meanwhile, the red ends of my parents’ cigarettes danced like fireflies above the dashboard. Nobody spoke of what we’d left behind. My parents were brokenhearted, but they were military. They were also busy with a new baby: scarcely two weeks after Gail’s death, my brother Philip had been born, a robust baby who weighed over eight pounds. The nurses had to physically break my mother’s water during childbirth because she had a double membrane. “You weren’t ever going to lose that baby, darling,” one nurse told her, “no matter what you did.”
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