anniejeanbee
33 4 2
Most things about Mauve Simons are fake. She wears pencil skirts and manicured acrylic nails, eyelash extensions, and a full face of makeup every day. She lives to prove that she is not a child. But as all lovely things must be lost, Mauve finds that there is a new pressure in her life, one that requires more concealer than necessary. Karmine Mach is many things, a schoolteacher, a wife, a professed lesbian. Twenty eight years old, and yet she still doesn't understand how to properly sort laundry. After a miscarriage at nineteen, Karmine finds parental love to be a foreign feeling. Once the red pickup truck has driven Mauve out of her own house, and the empty room in Karmine's house is filled, the two realize that people are not numbers, and money doesn't prove love. Karmine and Mach are living parallel lives, and under one roof in an lower-middle class town, the two realize that they are at different places in their lives than recently thought.…