The image would be of the girl’s cold arm hanging off the gurney as she was wheeled down the hall at the trauma center. She would get flashbacks of a teenaged girl she’d worked on at the hospital who had drowned and come back to life but remained essentially brain-dead. She took a sip, turned back to the expansive bay window, trying to make sure Jimmy and Sadie were not in any trouble. Joan was drying the last dinner plate, about to go wrap Sadie’s birthday presents, but her husband George took the dishtowel from her hand and replaced it with a glass of red wine. Her second novel Holding Still for as Long as Possible (2009) won a Lambda Literary Award. Her debut novel Bottle Rocket Hearts (2007) made the Globe and Mail Top 100 Books of the Year. With exquisite emotional precision, award-winning author Zoe Whittall explores issues of loyalty, truth, and the meaning of happiness through the lens of an all-American family on the brink of collapse. The following is from Zoe Whittall’s novel, The Best Kind of People.
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