Can we please choose
a book with a boy this time—
Weren’t you listening? Winey interrupts. It is about a boy.
Preferably in this time period, you continue.
I need a break from history, I’m just sayin’.
Like what? Winnifred whines.
Like Peace, Locomotion,
an epistolary novel, which
means a—
I KNOW WHAT EPISTOLARY MEANS, she shouts, still frowning. IT’S A BOOK WRITTEN IN LETTERS.
Great choice, April says, and winks
at you.