![]() ![]() During the year beginning that night, disaster does seem to stalk Rita, getting more and more tangible, shaking even her mother s self-possession. ![]() Meanwhile, hanging around with the local basketball coach sends a strange charge darting through her chest-a casual affair, at first, that threatens to upset the balance of her carefully constructed life.Gay s daughter, Rita, is muddled, pudgy, obliged to admit that she, unlike her mother, doesn t "know how to dress for disaster".?She doesn t even know whether it actually spells disaster when the river behind her house-the Rio Grande, chugging through New Mexico on its way to becoming the border-turns black, black as coal or oil or death, the night before she starts high school. ![]() Robert Boswell has a gift for writing people into flagrant, discomfiting existence-as with the incorrigible Dulcie of his acclaimed novel of 1993, Mystery Ride.Now he conjures up Gay Schaefer, a sultry truck dispatcher who is determined to ignore small-town conventions and possess her life-to make it "original, graceful, adventurous".?Separated from her husband of fifteen years, she meets him once a month at the Desert Oasis Motel for glorious carousing, but pretends they are divorced for the benefit of her teenaged daughter. ![]()
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