Naomi Jackson quote — “Hyacinth took out a bottle of rum, and Phaedra raised her eyebrows, a …”

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Hyacinth took out a bottle of rum, and Phaedra raised her eyebrows, a reflex she'd acquired upon seeing her father and mother under its influence, their eyes and mouths turned wilder, as if a cork at the edges of their personalities had come unscrewed.

Naomi Jackson The Star Side of Bird Hill alcohol drinking

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