Symbols of America found in Home

Ryan Fox

Frank Money

“Other than that B-29 roar, exactly what he was doing to attract police attention was long gone.”

“Before joining the line at the Greyhound door, Frank noticed a police car cruising bay” (p. 19).

“He kept Frank on the back porch near the driveway, where a Rocket 98 Oldsmobile lurked…” (p. 22).

“At the next stop he got off and walked toward a Chevron station, its black flames shooting out from the V” (p. 23).

“The train’s rocking and the singing rails soothed him into a rare sleep that was so sound he missed the beginning of the riot, but not

its end” (p. 24).

“For sleeping the YMCA is always a good idea” (p. 25).

“As soon as he did, the zoot-suited man got up and disappeared down the aisle” (p. 27).

“And maybe a stop at the Goodwill, okay?” (p. 29).

“Regrets, excuses, righteousness, false memory, and future plans mixed together or stood like soldiers in line” (p. 43).

“Besides, she had a Ford and owned her house” (p. 44).

“Most of the young ones had enlisted in the war and when it was over didn’t come back to work cotton, peanuts or lumber” (p. 45).

Thelma, who lived in a big apartment upstairs, became a friend and helped her get a job dishwashing at Bobby’s Rib House, fusing

friendship with blunt counsel” (p. 50).

“Thelma patted her apron pocket for a pack of Camels” (p. 56).

So, whether annoyed or alarmed, she forgave him much: like that time in February when they went to a church convention held on a

high school football field” (p. 76)

They had been standing at a table, piling seconds of fried chicken on their plates, when a little girl with slanty eyes reached up over the

opposite edge of the table to grab a cupcake” (p. 76)”

“The woman behind the counter was in a wheelchair but, quick as a hummingbird, glided to the freezer and extracted the can of Dr.

Pepper” (p. 100).

“A brand-new Cadillac, gilded in the sunlight, was parked in front” (p. 101).

“After Hiroshima, the musicians understood as early as anyone that Truman’s bomb changed everything and only scat and bebop could

say how” (p. 108).

“ I don’t want no trouble with cops” (p. 114).

“You ate some in the good old USA too, but you didn’t know it” (p. 140).