I wasn't certain of anything anymore, except that New Orleans was a faithless friend and I wanted to leave her.

“If I poured all the lies I had told into the Mississippi, the river would rise …”

“One day when I was fourteen, I told Charlie that I hated Mother. “Don’t hate he…”

“My husband, Andrius, says that evil will rule until good men or women choose to…”

“He threw his burning cigarette onto our clean living room floor and ground it i…”