The Wife They Burned novel · Chapter 31 of 32
Chapter 31: Junie's House
"What do they want to call it?" I said.
Joy took a breath on the other end of the line.
"Junie's House," she said. "If you'll let them."
I couldn't answer her.
Abel sat up beside me and put his hand on my back, and waited.
"My love?" Joy said. "Are you there?"
"She'd have wanted it on the sign in orange," I said. "Tell him that's my condition."
Joy laughed, wet and loud.
"I already told him," she said. "He said what color else would it be."
They built it all summer.
It went up where the cottage had stood, on the same square of ground by the water.
The black walls were gone.
The chimney was gone.
Twelve bedrooms, white clapboard, a wraparound porch, and a light over the door that would never be turned off.
The money came from everywhere.
The appeal, which had never stopped. The Hartford grant. The insurance on the old house.
A check from the board woman in navy velvet, with a note that said only: For the slideshow.
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