Working on it

CALLIE. I can’t connect with mountains, trees, the little animals—they snub me. You know how you can be with two other people and you’re all having a great time. Then the person sitting next to you says something in French and the two of them burst into laughter, best laugh anyone’s had all night. And you’re left out because you took Spanish in the seventh grade, not French. That’s what nature does to me. Speaks French to the other people at the table.

—Diana Son, Stop Kiss, sc. 1