Mad-brained,
macrocephalic
Billy Mary Ellen Hattie Sigsbee
did forfeit her children’s milk money and bread
in exchange for a national highway atlas and a Bluebird bus.
She took off down the old Route One with a deaf-mute ventriloquist and a pop-eyed popinjay.
No regrets. Selfish thing.
Rounds gives us a brief, sharp portrait of a woman who walks out on her family. Billy Mary Ellen Hattie Sigsbee, described as "mad-brained" and oddly "macrocephalic," trades her children's milk and bread money for a highway atlas and a Bluebird bus, then heads down Route One with two strange…
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