Nonfiction

My mother and I would love to dine with you, I pleaded. We were visiting Paris for the very first time.

Sarah can read the unwritten subtext of the note: make this as form fitting as possible, definitely make sure we know she has breasts.

My challenge was to pack enough so that Mom would believe that she’d live long enough to need clothes for warmer weather, but not so much that it seemed I didn’t believe she could go back home by the summer