Chapter 10

"You can see me?" The words were out of me before I remembered nobody could hear — "I can hear you, too," Ruth said. I froze in the air. "Since the night you passed." She held the car door open. Absurdly. Courteously. For a ghost. "The women in my family have always seen what lingers. My mother saw. Her mother saw. I saw my husband for eleven days after his stroke, sitting in his chair, complaining about the news." Her chin trembled once, then steadied. "Get in, Nora. It's cold out here,...