The Choice
CHAPTER 12 Greener November 1949. I board a city bus in Baltimore. Gray dawn. Wet streets. I am ...
cleaning products door-to-door; now, in Baltimore, he sells insurance. Everything in George’s life is b ...
saved me. Now, my inner life makes me interpret a simple mistake, a misunderstanding, as catastrophe. ...
Ęawed. I wish I had known that I wasn’t a damaged person, that I was suffering the fallout of an inte ...
conĕdence in her own strength. Béla and I called her the little ambassador. Mrs. Bower wou ...
skill I most want her to have, the ability to be at home anywhere. And now it is exactly her lack of ...
wants to try it on right away. It takes ages to get the snug snowsuit on over the top of Mari ...
Marianne to see e Red Shoes, a movie written, we are proud to learn, by Emeric Pressburger, ...
disintegrating newspaper—but she can’t stop dancing, she can’t wake up. Vicky tries to give up da ...
hospital, an X-ray reveals that his TB has returned. He looks more unraveled and pale than he ...
job at the warehouse—but he will live. e medical staff at the TB hospital, taken by Béla’s char ...
* Béla shows his old boss at the warehouse the results of the aptitude test, ...
before Marianne turns ĕve, Magda does move to Baltimore. She stays with us for a few months until sh ...
then I must acknowledge it, and I am so used to pretending it isn’t there. “Are you happ ...
* It is a reĘex to expect the bad with the good. e ĕrst months of Audrey’s lif ...
CHAPTER 13 You Were There? In the summer of 1955, when Marianne was seven and Audrey was one, ...
agreed. We tried to make the upheaval into a fun adventure, a vacation. We drove scenic highways, ...
neighborhood, where we had expected to ĕnd shelter but instead felt exposed. In El Paso we were just par ...
“Laci Gladstein.” Tears spring into her eyes. “I’m his sister!” she cries. She has read my ...
front of Dickie and Barbara, her American cousins. Her disapproval stings. I have done what ...
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