#509 For a Long Time This Was Griselda’s Story-Anthony Doerr
The Carnival is at the fairgrounds outside Boise, Idaho.
Griselda takes her little sister. She is enthralled by the mysterious
metal-eater, amazed at the things she has never seen. She abandons her sister
and leaves with the metal eater, not to return for twenty years.
Her legend grows amongst the town folk. So when she comes
back to perform, the house is sold out. She was always beautiful and different,
but now she is everything they dream about. She fulfills all of their personal
desire for adventure and excitement; she embodies that which they cannot do
themselves. However, to her sister and mother—all they wanted was Griselda the
daughter and sister—she is nothing more than a runaway, someone that has
betrayed their love.
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