Sublime

April was now twenty, and because she was truly sympathetic to the human condition, she was besieged by a band of stars and handsome devils, who came to her when life for them stayed too glamorous for too long and didn’t seem real. Eventually, April went to sea and became a sailor.

echt

wayward

gregarious.

turpitude.”

wearing a rust-colored middy blouse and skirt by a Japanese designer. I wondered if her editor at Knopf, Shelly Wanger, had bought it. She often helped Joan with clothes.

precocious.