Uncle Gaston And NieceChapter 18
Annette Larreau could not definitely pinpoint the exact moment in her twenty-two years when she first contemplated suicide; it was as if the idea had been haphazardly floating around in her brain as far back as she could remember, before all of her father's mistresses, before "Cousin" Antoine had been sent to prison and his Madeleine had disappeared, before the evil ogre who had first her committed her mother to an institution for the mental deficient when she was ten, even prior to the...