Sublime

‘Mythomania’

But in the world of satisfying stories—her preferred domain—both of Olivia’s parents are so much less than they should have been.

precocious.

copacetic

sybaritic

She drank a blue Gatorade, cold dark blood of the gods,

truculent

That Thomas had worked for the Chronicle since 1976 was easily established, as was the fact that he’d published three brief novels since that date. Out of a sense of delicacy Carleton never mentioned that he owned all three of these, and found them elegant and elliptical, couched in prose that had the cadence of the King James Bible, and concerned

Weltschmerz