Esther takes the train home to Massachusetts, the bloody marks still on her face. She had to trade her bathrobe for clothes to wear home since she had thrown everything else away. Her mother picks her up at the train station and immediately tells her that she was not accepted for the writing course at school for which she'd applied. Now she has nothing to look forward to for the rest of the summer.
She lives with her mother in a small white clapboard house in the suburbs; they sleep on twin beds in the same room. Esther stays in bed most of the day, sometimes creeping to the window to watch a young mother from up the street walking her children. Her college roommate, who is expecting her back at school for the.....
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