Read The Hunchback of Neiman Marcus Online
Authors: Sonya Sones
The Hunchback of Neiman Marcus
A Novel about Marriage, Motherhood, and Mayhem
For my husband Bennett
and my daughter Avaâ
who are
not
the husband and the daughter in this book.
No.
Seriously.
And for my son Jeremy, tooâ
who's glad to have dodged a bullet on this one.
I'm
curled up like a comma
on my
couch,
swaddled
in
my
husband's velvet arms,
watching
sparks
play chase
games up the flue,
breathing
in
our pepper
tree's sweet scent,
listening to
her hiss
and snap and
purr,
savoring
her sizzling
scarlet glow,
this heat of
hers that flows
into my
bones,
knowing
that our
tree's not really goneâ
that even when
her arms
have turned to
ash
a part of her,
the heart of her,
will live on
in these lines.
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Oh no!
Due to
reflow-
able text
capability in e-books like this,
the pages
might look somewhat amiss
when
comprised of poemsâ
not at all
like they do in paper tomes.
If you
find that the font is too small to read
and you
choose to adjust it to suit your need,
the
stanzas might look a tad out of whack.
So feel
free to switch it right back.
And
there's just one more thing
that I
would like to bring to your attention:
I feel I
must mention
that
though some like to read
while they
rub-a-dub-dub,
you'd be wise to keep
this
version out of the tub.