Chapter 4: A Spoiled ChildHearing her name, as if on cue, like a play unfolding on a stage, Willa enters the kitchen area from the dining room, which immediately stifles the current conversation between the brothers. She carries a bamboo tray covered with sculpted ceramic miniatures of a nativity scene. There’s Mary, Joseph, baby Jesus, two Wise Men (the third was eaten by a family dog named Hornfuzz Icicle—may he rest in peace—three years ago, and was never retrieved from the backyard in the spring after the winter’s thaw ), and a half dozen farm animals. Willa moves up to the kitchen’s windowsill and prepares to create a manger display. In doing so, she says to Jonah, “Did you meet the s*x toy yet?”
“Magnum just passed through here, back from a run, but I haven’t been properly introduce
