Chapter 5
Miriam eventually said dinner was ready and everyone went into the dining room, Katie making sure she sat next to Jimmy.
“I thought about trying to make you feel at home and cook something American,” Miriam said, carrying the first course to the table, “but I didn’t want to make a bad impression by getting it wrong.”
“Yorkshire puddings. Wonderful.” Jake said.
“Oh, you have them back home?” Greg, Barry’s dad, asked.
“Barry makes them for us sometimes,” Jimmy told him.
“But Mum’s are a lot better than mine,” Barry said, noting how much higher his mother’s puddings rose than his usually did.
The first course was accompanied by a seemingly never-ending monologue from Katie, who told Jimmy about everyone in her class—whom she liked and disliked, and the reasons why. Jimmy, to
