Furman, Laura. Drinking with the Cook. Houston: Winedale Publishing, 2001.
Reason read: June is national short story month.
Drinking with the Cook – Peggy and Don have a weird relationship. While they have been dating and seem quite serious they never really discuss anything of importance. Right away you can tell they aren’t meant to be together, especially when Peggy gives up her city apartment to live with Don in the country. She doesn’t even know if he wants her there. She is a fish out of water but blind to how wrong the situation really is. Best line: “I wish there was a way to bank fear and draw on it only when necessary” (p 19).
Hagalund – is a story for which I needed a map to guide me. Miriam, while on vacation in Colorado with her husband and son, reminisces about her time as a single girl spending a winter in Sweden. It’s during the Vietnam War, a time when no one trusted anyone else – not completely. Favorite quote: “But now that was over, and I was waiting for the next thing to happen though it was happening already” (p 155).
Author fact: Furman has her own website here: Laura Furman.
Book trivia: There are eleven other stories in Drinking with the Cook.
BookLust Twist: from Book Lust in the chapter called “Good Things Come in Small Packages” (p 103).
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