A short story by Elizabeth McCracken from the collection Reader, I Married Him: Stories inspired by Jane Eyre.In ‘Robinson Crusoe at the Waterpark’, a family trip to a Texan waterpark prompts a life-changing decision.Edited by Tracy Chevalier, the full collection, Reader I Married Him, brings together some of the finest and most creative voices in fiction today, to celebrate and salute the strength and lasting relevance of Charlotte Brontë’s game-changing novel and its beloved narrator.
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Elizabeth McCracken. Robinson Crusoe at the Waterpark: A Short Story from the collection, Reader, I Married Him
Robinson Crusoe at the Waterpark. Elizabeth McCracken
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FOREWORD BYTRACY CHEVALIER
ROBINSON CRUSOEAT THE WATERPARK
ELIZABETH McCRACKEN
AUTHOR NOTE
A NOTE ON CHARLOTTE BRONTË
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The fog made them drive slowly, as though not to break their car upon it. A wedding party walked towards them along the beach: bride, groom, six blue-clad bridesmaids, two men in tuxes, all of them overweight, one whippet-thin photographer walking backwards. The lactic light made them look peculiarly buoyant on the sand. Above them, a line of large khaki birds flew parallel to the ocean, heads ducked to avoid the clouds.
“Pelicans!” said Ernest, and then, in a hopeful, accusatory voice, “A wedding.”
