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A Novel
by Lorna Landvik
Well, honey, just pull the shade, advised my mother when I told her how I couldnt sleep past dawn in that room.
As long as youre getting up so early, why dont you go down to Hauglands? said my aunt Beth, refilling my coffee cup. (She had assumed without asking that I liked coffee, and to my surprise, I found I did.) I know theyre hiring down there.
Maybe I will, I said, heaping a spoonful of jam on my toast. My aunt had a pantry full of fancy stuff she ordered from specialty catalogscylinders of German cookies, imported tins of fish, French pâtés, Swedish candies, and jars of fancy English curds and jams that emptied a lot faster now that we were living with her. But that was the cool thingwell, one of the cool thingsabout my aunt Beth: she never made me or my mother feel like we were slumming. To her we were guests she couldnt believe it was her good fortune to host. I knew she wanted me to work so Id get out of the housebut in a good way.
Its the best way to meet people, she said. Hauglands is right by the lake, and its swarming with kids in the summer.
Excerpted from The View from Mount Joy by Lorna Landvik Copyright © 2007 by Lorna Landvik. Excerpted by permission of Ballantine Books, a division of Random House, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.
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