This is my secret pleasure, to watch unseen.
March 24, 2010 at 1:22 am pancakemahoney 4 comments
Posted by: Laura Park
Book: Geek Love (purchase on Amazon)
The story flashes to the present day Portland. Lily has lost most of her eyesight (and mind) and acts as the manager of a rambling Victorian rooming house. Oly (now known as Hopalong McGurk) works narrating dramatic stories on the radio and resides in Room #21. The room allows her to keep an eye on Lily and also on the resident of Room #35. Miranda Barker (Room #35) was raised in a convent believing she was an orphan, she has no clue that the albino dwarf in #21 is her mother. And Oly plans on keeping it that way.
“Lily chose to forget me and I choose not to remind her, but I am terrified of seeing shame or disgust in my daughter’s face. It would kill me. So I stalk and tend them both secretly, like a midnight gardener.”
That paragraph was quite a tangle! I hope readers of Geek Love enjoy the illustration and I sure hope it perhaps encourages some new folks to pick it up. More next month!
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Meg Hunt | March 24, 2010 at 9:35 am
The perspective in here is so good and strange! Gosh I love this take on Geek Love.
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Cary | March 24, 2010 at 4:28 pm
My inner balding-hunchbacked-albino-dwarf-child applauds your illustration…
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S.britt | March 25, 2010 at 10:01 pm
This drawing makes me think of a lot of things.
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pancakemahoney | March 26, 2010 at 4:03 pm
good things?