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Waiting for Joe : a novel by Birdsell, Sandra, 1942- is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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<b>One</b><br> <br> <br>It is early morning when Joe Beaudry awakens to a droning sound, the ceiling fan, he thinks. His father has left it going again in his room at the back of the house. But when Joe opens his eyes, the greenish light is seeping in around the edges of the blind and he remembers that he and Laurie are parked on the Walmart lot in Regina. The cold is like a hovering presence above the bed, alert and waiting for his next move.<br> <br>“What time is it?” Laurie asks, and she feels the sudden tension in Joe, his surprise that she’s awake too. She sees his arm rise and the glow at his wrist lights the bottom of his stubbly face.<br> <br>“You don’t want to know.” It’s near to three o’clock, Joe doesn’t say. When he came to bed around midnight unsettled by the red wine they’d drunk with supper, Laurie was already asleep. She lay completely still, hands folded and tucked under her chin, the rise and fall of her breathing barely perceptible. He’d often been jealous of that stillness, of whatever took her away. Soon after, he’d heard the clatter and dull rolling sounds of the skateboarders at the far end of the lot, and then the sweeper making its nightly pass of the shopp

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Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.

Author
Birdsell, Sandra, 1942-
Publisher
Toronto: Random House Canada
Published
2010
Language
EN
ISBN
9780307359162
Category
work of fiction
Subjects
Literary Fiction, Fiction, Humanities
Rating
2.91 / 5 (142 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-13