Marigold (Excerpted)

Marigold (Excerpted)

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It is 1932. Marigold wrestles with grief, guilt, and loneliness.

"-Then, after some minutes of shrieking and wailing of debased figures pouring over one another, squealing like suckling pigs, elbowing through a wall of muscular backs, pushing through the little barricade of plastic half-piping propped atop cinder-blocks that marked the head of the distribution queue-a hush would fall among the lot of them. Oh, and how quiet they'd become. Scores of dilated eyes blinking, blinking, blinking. The sun would fall over their sweat corned foreheads, their reddened cheeks. The wind would tug at the loose hairs that fell from beneath the black polyester scarves which hid the heads of married women. The check-lister would then show his pale, beaky face from behind the glass window of the truck, and with pretentious eyes, begin calling off surnames. "

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