By Judith Ryan Hendricks
Sunny Cooper has been working considering the fact that she was once eighteen—from the recent Mexican commune the place she grew up . . . and from the haunting reminiscence of the freak coincidence that took the lifetime of her more youthful sister. Now, at thirty-two, Sunny voices radio spots in Albuquerque whereas suffering to carry directly to a floundering dating. but if a moment tragic accident—and the devastating truths that come to gentle in its aftermath—turns her global the wrong way up, Sunny runs again.
In the city of concord on San Miguel Island, she takes a brand new activity, learns to trip a motorbike, and makes a few striking new buddies. however the earlier isn't a ways in the back of. A startling discovery—along with an emotional and revelatory reunion along with her estranged mother—is forcing Sunny to step out from the shadows of the day before today to embody an doubtful future.
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See him. ” “Make an identification? ” He finishes his second glass and stands up. “If you can give me the name of his dentist . ” The memory of Michael’s smile brings me up short, embarrassed. “I don’t think he ever saw a dentist. ” “Then maybe I could take something of his . . a hairbrush or a hat, maybe. For a DNA analysis. It’s just routine. I think we can be reasonably certain the driver was Mr. ” In our bedroom I pull out the top drawer on Michael’s side of the dresser. I haven’t looked at his things in ages.
He looks directly into my eyes. His are gray with little sun-yellow flecks. “This truck was involved in a very serious accident sometime early this morning, just outside Trinidad, Colorado. On Interstate Twenty-five. The vehicle flipped and rolled and then a fire began from the leaking gasoline. ” I hear my own voice, obscenely cheerful. “Because he wasn’t in Trinidad, Colorado. ” For a minute I blank. ” And the trooper writes it in his little book. ” “I don’t know. It could have been stolen. It was a classic thirty-one hundred.
Maybe I could function. ” I look at her, my eyes filling up. ” She scoots down next to me and puts her arm around me, resting her head on my shoulder. “I know, honey. I’m so sorry. This is such a terrible shock. ” Suddenly she’s crying, and I’m comforting her. She pulls a tissue from her pocket and blows her nose. ” “I’m having a hard time . . ” She jams the crumpled tissue back in her pocket. ” This is so Betsy. Give her a task to accomplish, a problem to solve, and then get out of her way. “Choose a funeral home.