Before Isabel could read, she loved books.

“It’s never the wedding dresses, you know. We keep those, too, but only because …”

“The early morning sunlight warms a patch of linoleum, and she lets her feet bat…”

“We do not last, she thinks. In the end, only the stories survive.”

“They are in the middle of the sidewalk, face to face, between a tobacco shop an…”