Status Updates From The Selected Stories

“He might like to see me. He knows me.’ ‘He’s already forgotten you’, her mother said… He will remember that I picked him up, Nora decided. He will remember the smell of the incense. He will remember the front door and moving into the dark hall. I’ll try to remember him. It’s the best I can do.’

3- The Fenton Child

“The Muslim Wife” — what a fabulous story…!!

The volume actually begins here. There is all sorts of filler at the start.

“Mornings were tender—first pink, then pearl, then blue. The house was quiet, the twins were awake and smiling. From their upstairs window the sea was a silken cushion. White sails floated-feathers…After a time Carmela's phantoms were stilled. The softness of that June lulled them. The uncle slept peacefully somewhere, and the devil under the bed became too drowsy to stretch out his hand”

2-The Four Seasons