An Inauguration Novella, Part 5 of 5
Slate Books
Slate Podcasts
3.8 • 546 Ratings
🗓️ 20 January 2009
⏱️ 14 minutes
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| 0:37.5 | A novella about the inauguration, written and read by Curtis Sittenfeld. |
| 0:42.7 | Part 5 of 5 |
| 0:44.5 | Late Monday afternoon, while Patrice is sitting in the living room checking her Blackberry, |
| 0:50.7 | the living room couch is where she slept last night. |
| 0:53.5 | She had a feeling both she and Aunt Lettie |
| 0:55.2 | would get more rest, not in the same bed. Bruce offers to make dinner. He asks if they eat seafood. |
| 1:02.2 | Some, Patrice says. He proposes clams with red sauce, which sounds fine to her. It's fish she's not |
| 1:08.3 | crazy about. And fine to Aunt Lettty, too, when Patrice checks. |
| 1:12.6 | Together, Patrice and Bruce walked to a grocery store on 17th and Corcoran. In addition to the |
| 1:18.2 | clams, which he buys canned, he gets crushed tomatoes, a bulb of garlic, an onion, a bunch of parsley, |
| 1:25.8 | a box of spaghetti, and two $10 bottles of red wine, and in the |
| 1:30.2 | checkout line, with little discussion, they split the total. At the apartment, she sets the |
| 1:35.6 | table while he puts water on to boil and chops the vegetables. Aunt Letty is in the bedroom |
| 1:40.7 | talking on her cell phone to her son Steve, and Caleb is sequestered |
| 1:44.7 | in the other bedroom, doing Patrice has no idea what, though a good bet, based on observing |
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