![]() ![]() This suitcase, a dominant metaphor in the novel, becomes Bean's touchstone that keeps her from spiralling into the dark worlds of her beautiful, screwed up mother and all the stray men she brings home her sad, exhausted father and her magnetic stepfather as he transforms from family saviour into drunken dragon. Fallwell's life story in Mostly Happy.Ĭaught in the tight space between love and fear, Bean gallops through her early life picking up shiny bits of beauty along the way and tucking them into a red Samsonite suitcase. It was an on again off again sort of affair. I had a lot of crushes - Jack Lord from Hawaii Five-O, Hawkeye Pierce, Jerome the Giraffe and Jesus. ![]() Prissy had a lot of boyfriends when I was growing up. ![]() Prissy Fallwell smoked Players Plain, played crib for money and drank Wild Turkey when she was between men. ![]()
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