September 6, 2008

sentences

“Her father turned around.  ‘Pancakes?’ he asked her. 
Winnie didn’t want pancakes.  ‘Sure,’ she said.”
 
You will find these simple sentences, which take you to the heart of Winnie, at the end of the story “Ship in a Bottle,” which, with twelve other linked stories creates the book, Olive Kitteridge, new this year by Elizabeth Strout.   
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