Lisa Alther

"One day, maybe she'd stick around to explore her own capacity for the dark, but at the moment all she wanted was a cheeseburger."

"Two people sat talking in a small room for several weeks, and things started happening. They began thinking about each other; one would dream about the other; they copied each other's mannerisms. What…"

"The Sizemores are the laughing stock of wannabee genealogy. They claim Cherokee descent, but their paper trail shows them to be white."