Liane Moriarty

ife sure can surprise you,’ her grandmother used to say, mostly about quite unsurprising developments such as a bad cold, the price of bananas and so on.

On the other hand

couldn’t help
but keep laughing

undid her seat belt

banged on the
window.

pulled up at a red light

She enjoyed being told off by them. She could hear the rhythms of her own voice, her mother’s voice, her grandmother’s voice, every relieved cranky woman from the beginning of time.
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It was nice to hold on to the memories of those fierce, desperate hugs when the hugging stopped.

and arrest her too.’

‘For what?’

‘For pissing me off,’

She turned up the volume on Taylor Swift to inspire her. She loved Taylor Swift.

Hypothesis: My children don’t care.

Conclusion: My children don’t care.