Sublime

chiaroscuro).

Maira had wanted to introduce her to Ansel Fleming for some time. It was not a setup, Maira said, though frankly Ivy wouldn’t have minded a setup. Just someone to have coffee with, said Maira. Though Ivy didn’t need a new friend, already neglecting many of her friends, since the eclipse made by motherhood. Maira was an expansive person, always want

“Dysentery.” Sadie didn’t feel like invoking cancer, the destroyer of natural conversation.

propriety.

Mary Karr