I did not choose solitude. Who would? It came on me like a kind of vocation, demanding an effort that married women can't picture.


The Beet Queen: A Novel (1986)


I did not choose solitude. Who would? It came on me like a kind of vocation, demanding an effort that married women can't picture.

I did not choose solitude. Who would? It came on me like a kind of vocation, demanding an effort that married women can't picture.

I did not choose solitude. Who would? It came on me like a kind of vocation, demanding an effort that married women can't picture.

I did not choose solitude. Who would? It came on me like a kind of vocation, demanding an effort that married women can't picture.