Sublime

“Damn,” I said. I thought about how Megan and I, according to the lifestyle marketing biographies the sales team had invented, were “Style Eccentrics,” meaning that they could not predict our shopping habits. One day we would buy a coat at the Goodwill and the next day a Chanel blouse. We were unfavorable as consumers, impossible to pin down, and I

Molly says, “I am caught right now in Sondra’s charming behavior. I am thinking, ‘Ah! This is the person I used to know.’ My logic tells me not to reconnect with her. But my emotions are telling me another thing.”

Moody, who loved art, was watching Pearl and wishing – not for the first time – that he were a photographer, so that he could capture the way the light from the frosted-glass gallery ceiling hit her upturned face and made it glow.

Wherever her family went, she became the node that connected all wandering Americans worth knowing.