Tatevik (on hiatus)’s Reviews > A Slipping Down Life by Anne Tyler (5-Mar-1990) Paperback > Status Update

Her father never mentioned her (and never said, "You are what I traded your mother for, and it was a bad bargain at that," which was what Evie continually expected to hear). But the bedjacket, with its satin buttons, seemed to be giving him away without his realizing it, speaking up out of all those years of silence.