#251 Tenderfoot- Edith Perlman
A new day, a new author, a new collection of short stories.
This is the first offerings of Perlman’s latest, Honeydew. It is a pretty quiet
piece, understated and muted, even if the themes run deep.
Paige runs a pedicure salon on main street. She lost her
husband to the Iraq war. He was sterile, but they were happy. Across the street
lives Bobby, he is an art teacher and has a bit of a crush on Paige.
“His turret was still bright. She new that he spied on her
from its oblong window. She had seen him plain, doing it at twilight; she had
seen him at night , when the mild light from the streetlamps entered…She’d
sympathized with his aloneness; she’d considered it promising. Now—she knew
that he was not alone.”
His wife had recently left him because of a moral dispute
about helping highway crash victims, but just when he was making his move on
Paige, she returned. Mistakes, fate, timing and regret, time moves on…let it.
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