The Tree Of Forgetfulness (2012) - Plot & Excerpts
Before her mother forgave her for eloping with Howard, she and Libba had exchanged brief notes at the end of every week. Once her parents had accepted that Libba was a married woman living with her husband in her own house, the habit of writing to one another was so pleasurable for both of them that they kept it up. When she or her mother traveled, longer letters crossed the distance between them. Even now, some mornings when the house was quiet, she would close the bedroom door and sit at the small maple desk near the window that looked out into a magnolia tree and write her mother a letter. When she was done, she would put it in a hatbox on the top shelf of her closet where no one would have any business looking until she was gone, and what would it matter then? “Dearest Mother,” she wrote. “Or maybe Madame Chairman would be more fitting, since it is to you that I still imagine submitting the minutes of my life. At this time of the year, with the flower show upon us, I feel your presence more than ever.
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