Aiti the Last Chieftess

di Kelly Winsa (Autore)

Kala Healing Works Press, 2024

Margy is the oldest of five, now in her late forties. She is completely uninterested in other people. On the night before Christmas Eve in 1946, while she is enjoying her evening, and has already been interrupted by her ten year younger sister Inith, who is sitting at her kitchen table, someone knocks at the door. Irritated, Margy opens it and there is her young brother John holding a sleeping seven year old. It is Rose, who Margy knows well but doesn't tolerate for more than a few hours of babysitting. John, who is the baby of the family and thoroughly frightened by his oldest sister, claims that the child's mother is unable to care for her and can she stay a couple of days. There is now a sick infant at Rose's house. Margy admits the child and her brother for a short time, and then everyone goes to bed. During a storm in the night, Margy is awakened but realizes the real annoyance is that Rose is crying, alone in the dark in the other room. Margy heaves herself up and goes into the dark living room, where Rose cries out. Without realizing it, Margy changes her attitude and begins to tell the girl a story, one that she herself finds quite intriguing and was told as a girl. There is a woman who once had a big fight ahead of her, and Margy begins this story so that Rose will sleep and perhaps understand that she is going home tomorrow.

• Autore: Kelly Winsa
• Anno edizione: 2024
• Editore: Kala Healing Works Press
• EAN: 9781778233968

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