Status Updates From My Family and Other Animals

"Outside, the warm wind would shoulder the shutters, making them creak, and the raindrops would chase each other down the window-pane like transparent tadpoles" (96).

"Mother spent a lot of her spare time choosing places to be buried in, but they were generally situated in the most remote areas, and one had visions of the funeral cortège dropping exhausted by the wayside long before it had reached the grave" (99).