Little PegUntreed Reads, 2012 M09 10 - 155 pages Peg O'Crerieh is a wife, mother, creative writing instructor, and occasional resident of the Everview Residential Treatment Center, which she is once again preparing to leave. Awaiting Peg at home are her devoted family; the normal pressures of daily life; and, most important, the students in her Nontraditional English class, where the assignment is always to write about Peg. As Peg struggles to find her place in the outside world, she finds herself drawn into her students' stories. Usurping their material, revising their facts, Peg slowly inches toward the truth until she is finally able to leave the worst behind. By turns brilliantly comic and achingly sad, Little Peg is a portrait of a single woman, in extremis and in exultation, and of a life transformed by the retrospective powers of a gifted writer. |
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... tell everything now, God help me later. They're big enough, I guess, but low on my chest; they form a ledge just above the rounded ledge that is my waist. I do good things these days with my hair. The history of my perms is the history ...
... tell everything now, God help me later. They're big enough, I guess, but low on my chest; they form a ledge just above the rounded ledge that is my waist. I do good things these days with my hair. The history of my perms is the history ...
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... tell time. He looked at his wrist. “Three fifty-six,” he said. “Mmmmm,” I said to Baby's torso. The torso said it back. “Okay, Ben.” I stuffed the fishing line and hook inside the matchbox and handed it to him. He dropped it into her ...
... tell time. He looked at his wrist. “Three fifty-six,” he said. “Mmmmm,” I said to Baby's torso. The torso said it back. “Okay, Ben.” I stuffed the fishing line and hook inside the matchbox and handed it to him. He dropped it into her ...
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... tell? In '73 I gave him no choice but to take me to court concerning Molly, and as a result, I was declared unfit. He has legal custody but allows me to visit whenever I like. (My scheduled times are Sundays, Mondays, and Tuesdays ...
... tell? In '73 I gave him no choice but to take me to court concerning Molly, and as a result, I was declared unfit. He has legal custody but allows me to visit whenever I like. (My scheduled times are Sundays, Mondays, and Tuesdays ...
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... tell what he was thinking.” “If she isn't getting anything out of it,” James muttered to me, “why make her go?” “I don't make her go.” “You still ask.” “James,” I said, “you haven't turned the dishwasher on.” I didn't know why I asked ...
... tell what he was thinking.” “If she isn't getting anything out of it,” James muttered to me, “why make her go?” “I don't make her go.” “You still ask.” “James,” I said, “you haven't turned the dishwasher on.” I didn't know why I asked ...
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... tell her. She says, “Daddy misses you, you know. He talks about missing you.” I can't wipe all the sticky icing from ... Tell me something about you that will upset me. How about it? If you'd talk to me like an adult—your mother—I'd like ...
... tell her. She says, “Daddy misses you, you know. He talks about missing you.” I can't wipe all the sticky icing from ... Tell me something about you that will upset me. How about it? If you'd talk to me like an adult—your mother—I'd like ...
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