The Swans Of Fifth Avenue (2016) - Plot & Excerpts
Ann Woodward woke up that morning feeling like hell. She always felt like hell, but that morning of October 9, 1975, the sky appeared grayer, the air colder, her breath more of a waste than it had seemed the day before. She had a headache; she’d had a headache for so long, she knew she’d feel worse without one. It was a companion. One of the few she could claim. The headache, the ostracism, the entrapment—for she really was an animal in a cage, a gilded cage, but the bars were well constructed by her mother-in-law, Elsie. The food doled out grudgingly. The few glimpses of sunshine rationed. Her life was a prison. Her sons, removed from her, raised by Elsie, and really, who could blame her? It wasn’t as if Ann was a good mother, she knew she wasn’t, but still it stung to have them taken from her like that. Her sons were now two more things she couldn’t call her own anymore. So Ann rose, took a pill or two—because why not? She didn’t even know, for sure, what they did for her anymore—went to get the mail, and found, in a manila envelope, a copy of the upcoming Esquire, with a photo of Rich Little in a rumpled raincoat on its cover.
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