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First Published:
Jan 2009, 256 pages
Paperback:
Jan 2010, 272 pages
Book Reviewed by:
Joanne Collings
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He was in among the trees when she walked by and called
out to him. He turned and squinted in her direction. He waved,
then turned and reached up into one of the trees, checking first
one apple then the next. Finally satisfied, he came toward her,
an apple in each hand.
“Here,” he said, handing them to her. “A taste of the new
season.”
The sky was already darkening by the time Lillian got home,
and the cold air came in the door with her. Her mother sat in
her usual chair in the living room, a book held under a circle of
light made by the reading lamp.
“I have something for you, Mom,” Lillian said, and placed
one of the apples in her mother’s hand.
Lillian’s mother took the apple and absentmindedly pressed
its smooth, cold surface against her cheek.
“It feels like fall,” she commented, and bit into it. The sharp,
sweet sound of the crunch filled the air like a sudden burst of
applause and Lillian laughed at the noise. Her mother looked
up, smiling at the sound, and her eyes met her daughter’s.
“Why, Lillian,” she said, her voice rippling with surprise,
“look how you’ve grown.”
From the prologue to The School of Essential Ingredients by Erica Bauermeister. Copyright Erica Bauermeister 2009. All rights reserved. No part of this book maybe reproduced without written permission from the publisher.
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