Tuesday's Intro and Teaser

FFT is hosted by Diane of Bibliophile By the Sea where we share the opening paragraph of our current read to see if others would read the book based on that first paragraph.  Please feel free to join in, First Chapter~First Paragraph~Tuesday Intros.

"My house is a storybook house. A huff-and-puff-and-they'll-blow-it-down house. The roof is soft, it's tumbled. There are bushes growing tall past the sills. A single sprouted tree leans in from high above the cracked slate path, torpedoing acorns to the ground. Splat and crack. Another acorn to the ground. "Sophie?" "Mother?" "I'm off." "Right." "Be good."  Be good. My mother's instructions. Her rules. The floor slats are slants, and the furniture slides, clawing away at the varnish. The walls are pink scratch, or yellow. At the kitchen table, my mother has left my day's work behind - the cardboard from the backs of paper pads, the pencil, the string, the ruler, the hole punch, the dulled-down blade of the old X-Acto knife, the stuff, she says, of an icosahedron. The car door slams, and the engine turns over. The Volvo caroms. The day tilts forward."





Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of  Should Be Reading.