Lisey's Story
A Novel
Chapter One
Lisey and Amanda
(Everything the Same)
1
To the public eye, the spouses of well-known writers are all but
invisible, and no one knew it better than Lisey Landon. Her husband had
won the Pulitzer and the National Book Award, but Lisey had given only one
interview in her life. This was for the well-known women's magazine that
publishes the column "Yes, I'm Married to Him!" She spent roughly half of
its five-hundred-word length explaining that her nickname rhymed with
"CeeCee." Most of the other half had to do with her recipe for slow-cooked
roast beef. Lisey's sister Amanda said that the picture accompanying the
interview made Lisey look fat.
None of Lisey's sisters was immune to the pleasures of setting the cat
among the pigeons ("stirring up a stink" had been their father's phrase
for it), or having a good natter about someone else's dirty laundry, but
the only one Lisey had a hard time liking was this same Amanda. Eldest
(and oddest) of the onetime Debusher gir ... read full excerpt from: Lisey's Story ebook
