One on the Aisle
1993; University of Illinois Press; Volume: 26; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
10.2307/45228641
ISSN1554-9631
Autores ResumoPaula had the aisle seat.Her younger brother Tony was in the middle, next to Sugar, and the two of them pressed against the window and each other and pointed at cloud formations.Down below was Nevada.Paula turned another page in The Einstein Intersection even though she couldn't remember one word she had just read.What she was remembering was the wedding reception, Tony and Sugar's, yesterday, and that awful lavender dress she had to wear and how she had to smile, especially when her great aunts would say, "You just be patient, dear.Some day the right one will come along for you."And now being on the same flight."No!" she wanted to shout, "I am not chaperoning the newlyweds.They get off the plane at Reno, where they are renting a jeep and driving their camping gear to Yosemite.I get off at Oakland ."Tony and Sug did get off the plane in Reno, Sug gushing about how she ought to come and visit them and they'd fix her up with Sug's darling cousin Ned, and Paula did get off in Oakland.Bumping her bag along on its inefficient little wheels, she pushed through the doors to the sidewalk."How's the sister of the groom?"JoAnn was standing by the Vega, holding forward the front passenger seat, so Paula stuffed her suitcase into the back and climbed in after it."Feel like talking?" asked Rita from behind the wheel.Rita and JoAnn believed in talk therapy.They did most of the talking.tmî thought I'd die when Janice got married," said JoAnn.Janice was JoAnn's twin."And then Mindy."She twisted around in her seat and offered Paula a butterscotch lifesaver."Mindy-moo.The baby."Rita stepped on the gas and the car jerked onto the airport beltway."Everyone for hot fudge?" she asked.
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