The singer’s face dripped with sweat under the lights, beneath his shiny helmet of hair. He excused himself and wandered off toward the bathrooms. His sister, Valentina, wore a pale blue strapless dress, her arms brown and strong from tennis, but Benjamin didn’t seem to have noticed.Īs a schoolboy in London, Benjamin had taken dancing lessons, and he could waltz and foxtrot in an automatic way, but he steered Valentina with only a small corner of his mind, as he did everything now. Nat Doyle was an excellent dancer, and had spun Janie all over the floor.
He lived underwater with grief.įinally, Janie asked the Doyle twins to go with them. The look on Benjamin’s face said that he would never have a normal life. “We have to try to have a normal life here,” Janie had said. Janie wished they had spent more time thinking their cover story through.īenjamin had wanted to just skip the dance. At Ann Arbor High, going to the spring formal together meant you were practically engaged. They were not supposed to be a romantic couple. The school dance had posed a problem for Janie Scott and Benjamin Burrows, because he was enrolled as her cousin, although he wasn’t her cousin. It was late in the evening, and the punch bowl had been emptied many times. The singer had a shiny black sweep of hair and wore a narrow blue satin tie. and gold streamers hung from the ceiling of the gym, and the band glowed under the stage lights, against the folded bleachers. She attended the Community of Writers in 2000. Her essays have appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, The New Yorker, Slate, Sunset, and O. In 2007, she was chosen as one of Granta’s 21 Best Young American Novelists. Meloy’s stories have also been published in The Paris Review, Granta, and other publications, and she has received The Paris Review’s Aga Khan Prize for Fiction, the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in the Short Story, the Rosenthal Foundation Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, two California Book Awards, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. Her short story , “Madame Lazarus,” originally published in The New Yorker, is in The Best American Short Stories 2015, edited by T.C. She is also the author of the novels Liars and Saints and A Family Daughter, and the story collections Half in Love and Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It. It was followed by two sequels, The Apprentices (2013) and The After Room (2015).
Her first book for young readers, The Apothecary, was a New York Times bestseller and won the 2012 E.B. Her new book, Do Not Become Alarmed, was released by Riverhead Books in June, 2017.
Maile Meloy grew up in Helena, Montana, and now lives in Los Angeles.
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