Morag Fraser
๐ค SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
He's the son of a preacher, son of a Presbyterian preacher, whose best friend is a Methodist preacher.
And he falls in love with a black woman who he meets by accident.
One day in a rainstorm, he sees her carrying a pile of papers across the street.
He runs across the street, helps her pick them up.
She invites him in for a cup of tea.
That's where they meet.
The beginning of this particular novel, Jack, because Della has been a sort of a distant presence in the other, the three preceding novels, but in this one,
You get a very brief scene.
You think, what on earth is going on?
Something terrible happens between the two of them.
He walks out on her in a restaurant.
And then the next scene, 12 months later...
In a cemetery, at night, both of them inadvertently, so we think locked in, they meet again.
And then for 70 pages, 70 pages inside a cemetery, she sustains a conversation between the two of them.
And you know by then, it's all of those love stories, brief encounters, Romeo and Juliet, they fall in love.