They May Not Mean To, But They Do: A Novel - Plot & Excerpts
Molly saw a hermit thrush. Hummingbirds flitted in and out of white flowers shaped like bells. Pink buds of jasmine hung over the fence ready to burst into bloom. At the beach, surfers slid into the waves with the garish sunset behind them. Finches began to sing. She took one class to Catalina each week to photograph a cave painting and map the area around it. They used a software program that had originally been developed by NASA for the study of photographs of Mars. “Mars,” her mother said when Molly told her about the project. “Well, well. Digital tracing. Isn’t that nice.” “I knew you’d be interested.” “Oh, of course.” Molly told her about the bits of ocher the digital tracing had connected, and if her mother sounded less enthusiastic than Molly had expected, Molly attributed that to the weather. The weather was terrible in New York. It snowed and the bitter wind blew, and Joy could not leave her building. “Well, this will cheer you up, Mom. One of the grad students in engineering built a drone and we attached a 3-D camera and…”
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