Holy skirts rene steinke6/10/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Good fiction can feel like a catalog of pains. I didn’t know very many pains, it turned out. We were sitting at her parents’ house when she said that, and I couldn’t help but catalog the kinds of pain I knew: a burn a needle prick incision the pain of very cold the pain of ache of spasm. “Every time I think I’ve felt every kind of pain, they find a new one.” Friendswood: A Novel She waved her hand and looked away, brown eyes big. “I just don’t want any more pain,” she said. Jenny had a rare stomach cancer, and her doctors could have kept trying experimental therapies, but after a year or so she asked them to stop. Her dad’s smile is still like a wince, even a decade later. I remember it as starting over spring break of our freshman year in college, but I’m not sure, and I don’t want to call her family to check. 9, at 7 p.m., and at BookPeople in Austin on Wednesday, Oct. René Steinke will read at Brazos Bookstore in Houston on Thursday, Oct. ![]()
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