By the end of the week she was thinking constantly about where her body stopped and the air began about the exact point in space and time that was the difference between Maria and other.

“Discussion of how California has 'changed,' then, tends locally to define the m…”

“That was the year, my twenty-eighth, when I was discovering that not all of the…”

“Barbara is on what is called the woman's trip to the exclusion of almost everyt…”

“I mean maybe I was holding all the aces, but what was the game?”