The boys at the window, on a cold afternoon, very recently, were headed to Woolworths to buy things to eat. They stopped at the window of the shop and stared together at Hilary Clinton’s book, Living History.
One of the boys said: her!
The other boy answered: I know!
Then they straightened back up and continued on their way. As they left, one boy said: my mum used to always read a lot, books like that. When I got home from school she was always reading. When I was little she would always yell out like: is that you?
His friend said: like it could have been an assassin or something…
And the first boy answered: yeah!
Painting ‘Alexandra’ by Filipp Malyavin
The Book Keeper Book Shop 