By Annie Jacobsen
Lexi, a tender Mennonite lady from Saskatchewan, involves paintings as housekeeper and nanny for a doctor’s family members in Waterloo, Ontario, through the melancholy. Dr. Gerald Oliver is a good-looking philanderer who lives together with his neurotic and alcoholic spouse, Cammy, and their young children. Lexi quickly adapts to trendy conveniences, fortunately wears Cammy’s dear get rid of outfits, and is remodeled from an blameless right into a stylish city attractiveness. while Lexi is named domestic to Saskatchewan to take care of her loss of life mom, she returns a replaced individual. At domestic, Lexi unearths a magazine written through her older brother throughout the family’s trip from Russia to Canada. In it she reads of a tragedy saved mystery for years, one hat reconciles her early tmemories of her mom as cheerful and loving with the confused lady she turned in Canada. Lexi returns to Waterloo, the place a trouble of her personal, coupled with the data of this mystery, serves because the catalyst for her awareness that, in contrast to her mom, she needs to create her personal future. Watermelon Syrup is a vintage bildungsroman: the story of a naive younger lady on the crossroads of a conventional, restrictive global and a latest one with its freedom, hazards, and duties.
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Take them off. Put them on. How would she ever understand what these people wanted from her? At home the rules were so clear. “Right foot on the brake, then, next to the clutch. Good. Now, left hand on the wheel, near the top. Good. ” He wiggled the ball at the top of the stick that stuck up into the middle of the car. Her hand trembling, she turned the key in the ignition. A churning sound. And then the steady hum of the engine. The leather scent of the seats mingled with the smell of hot oil.
But even Tante Gertie was laughing. “Ach, Rudolf,” she said, as she wiped the tears from her eyes. Lexi felt her face beat up bright red and lowered her head. The world was such a strange, strange place. Nothing seemed to be as she thought it would be. Nothing seemed to be in its place. Mama was always upset if things in the house got out of place. It would upset her so much and she would be angry until everything was put back where it belonged. Lexi stood up to help Tante Gertie with the dishes, and her eye caught Jascha’s and he blushed.
She walked slowly down the back stairs to the kitchen and put on her apron to make supper. Sally and Simon ran in. Simon, still dressed in his navy Sunday suit, white shirt and red bow tie, was brandishing a toy sword, and Sally looked a mess, as she usually did, her white blouse and green velvet skirt all untucked. Lexi didn’t know whether they’d gone to church, but she was horrified by the thought of such show-off clothes in a place of worship. “We’re going to our Auntie Louise’s,” said Sally, vigorously scratching behind one of her knees.