If These Walls Had Ears (2009)
“A doorknob will suddenly come off in your hand. A heating duct in the belly of the house will lose a screw arid pop out of its fitting. Even if you think you know the trouble spots, you’ll still be taken by surprise. A piece of upstairs trim will swell up and warp, and the next thing you know, the rain will be leaking in downstairs and two walls away.
That’s the way it was both literally and figuratively at 501 Holly during the second half of the 1950s. For all Billie and Ruth’s efforts to ...control their world, or at the very least to appear to control it, the world now seemed bent on showing how powerless they were.
When Joyce was in the fifth grade, she came down with mononucleosis. She bad to stay home from school for a month. On the day she was supposed to go back, she pleaded with her mother for just one more day of lying on the sofa watching TV. Her older sisters would later say that Joyce was “the perfect child.” She was enough younger than Martha and Pat so that she wasn’t involved in their fights.MoreLess
That’s the way it was both literally and figuratively at 501 Holly during the second half of the 1950s. For all Billie and Ruth’s efforts to ...control their world, or at the very least to appear to control it, the world now seemed bent on showing how powerless they were.
When Joyce was in the fifth grade, she came down with mononucleosis. She bad to stay home from school for a month. On the day she was supposed to go back, she pleaded with her mother for just one more day of lying on the sofa watching TV. Her older sisters would later say that Joyce was “the perfect child.” She was enough younger than Martha and Pat so that she wasn’t involved in their fights.MoreLess
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