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By Emily Hopkins

Bloomfield is a town of tradition, ceremony, and wholesome values. For years, the Bibsin family has been a source of scandal for the neighbors of this small community.

Sean Bibsin knows one thing for certain. He outlived his mother. After being diagnosed with AIDS, he was estranged from his mother and the home he grew up in. But on the day of her mother's burial, and under the protection of his sister, Shelly Bibsin, reconciliation has a way of taking root in the strangest places.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Emily Hopkins
• Release date: Mar 13, 2012

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SHELLY BIBSIN WORE a goddamn yellow bikini to her mother’s burial. Later called the harlot's homecoming by the gray-haired gossips and firm-titted chits, her arrival abruptly interrupted Father Morin's graveside prayer reading. Distracted by the lemon-hued aberration, the poor Father stumbled through thy kingdom, stuttered queerly about come, exhaled with an exaggerated amen, and then, blessedly, fell silent. The gathered mourners, orthodox in dress and grief, sat in dumb abeyance and gawked at Shelly as she sauntered to where I was seated in the far corner of the front row of chairs. She perched herself on my lap like a plucky canary; legs crossed at the knees, hands folded in prayer like a regular, cross-me-up-and-down, church lady. The chair teetered on the uneven ground and I grabbed her bare hips to keep us from toppling. And, by God!, Father Morin coughed when I touched her.

Gathering wits from some holy place, the harassed Father took up the service and pushed through it with the martyred determination of Jesus hauling his cross to his crucifixion.

Through it all, Shelly cried. Each hiccuped sob bounced her breasts so that the fleshy mounds jiggled like under-cooked muffins puffing out of yellow paper liners.