The Thorn And The Blossom: A Two-Sided Love Story - Plot & Excerpts
Hair pulled back, lipstick a professional shade of mauve. In her briefcase were extra copies of her CV and the chapter she had submitted with her application. She had been right to wear the gray suit. Her mother had insisted on buying it for her. “You’ll look so professional,” she had said, and Evelyn had to admit she’d been right. She was grateful for the interview at Bartlett College. She’d been teaching for two years as an adjunct at Columbia, ever since finishing her doctoral degree. She knew she wasn’t the easiest sell: a medievalist who had chosen to write not about Chaucer or another author who would actually be taught in medieval literature classes, but on the legend of the Green Man. The Green Man in Medieval Europe had taken her eight years to write, and now she didn’t know what to do with it. She’d already gotten an article out of it, which probably explained why she’d been granted an interview at Bartlett. But she didn’t think the dissertation itself was publishable.
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