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By the time they arrived at the Starks’ house, where Lemon had cooked for twenty years, the news of Alfred Stark’s passing had already come from three people. Now Lemon paused before more signs of death: a Confederate flag waved from the gabled roof; a plain chassis stood before the front door, black draperies at its glassless windows. You weren’t liable to find flags or chassis in Little Tunis, where Negro families spoke of loss through trees whose limbs held colorful bottles placed upside down with the necks facing the trunk, to trap evil spirits. What bottles would they use to protect Timothy? Lemon shivered as she swept the Salat al-Janazah, funeral prayer, from her mind. Chapter One, Juba--Jam! On the Vine
Posted on: Wed, 08 Oct 2014 12:48:21 +0000

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