Where Are You? / Teaser Tuesdays (March 17)

I live in a small town in Maine. We don't have much money, but Gram says Daddy is a genus and could build anything. We live in a ranch house he built hisself. Daddy says it's called a ranch house 'cause that's what cowboys live in. My mom's in some kind of place where they send crazy people; she came to visit one Christmas. Our neighbors are the Beans. The Bean men are rough, and the women always seem to be havin' babies. Sometimes when Daddy isn't home, I cross the road and talk to them Beans.

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MizB at Should Be Reading hosts Teaser Tuesdays. Here's how it works: Grab your current read; let the book fall open to a random page; and share 2 “teaser” sentences from that page, somewhere between lines 7 and 12. For more teasers, click on through to MizB's blog. Note: this teaser was found by using Amazon's "surprise me" feature.

"We're pickin' up. I'm collectin' the kids' bowls. She's feedn' the stove. I'm singin' a hymn, one of Gram's favorites, and Beal comes out of the bedroom and he says, 'Earlene, shut up!' He sets on the stool by the woodstove where Madeline's coaxin' the fire and he puts on his boots. I see them boots are still wet."

— both from The Beans of Egypt, Maine by Carolyn Chute