About Bobbie Ann Mason: Bobbie Ann Mason is an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and literary critic from Kentucky.
Mary Lou suddenly realizes that Mack calls the temperature number because he is afraid to talk on the telephone, and by listening to a recording, he doesn’t have to reply. It’s his way of pretending that he’s involved. He wants it to snow so he...
One day I was counting the cats and I absent-mindedly counted myself.
I don’t know, it is a very quiet rebellion. […] I don’t get angry. I sit quietly in the corner and say 'no'.
