The disappearance of one family’s child and the impact that moment has on every aspect of their lives is illustrated by the passage below.
A favorite passage:
They stood in the bower the lilacs formed. Pat scolded and then snapped; Beth leaped into the driver’s seat. She didn’t kiss him. She would see him in two days, anyway. In fact, she would see Pat before the sun went down, Beth later recalled — and she had not kissed him then, either, not then or for months afterward, so that the first time she did, their teeth knocked, like junior-high kids’, and she noticed, for the first time, that his tongue tasted of coffee — a thing she had never noticed before, during all years when his tongue was as familiar in her mouth as her own.
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