Coffee in the Garden - Excerpt from the novel Between Mirrors, by Francis Rosenfeld. Story Animation.
“I see you’re in great spirits,” Grandmother laughed, pleased to see her little girl happy. “The rain must have cleared away the shadows.”
Claire returned the reply that was expected of her, as she always did when her elder mentioned the shadows. It was like a secret understanding, this exchange of phrases between the two of them, whose meaning, though obscure, had acquired almost ceremonial significance with the passing of years.
“What shadows, maman? There are no shadows other than the ones we cast.”
“And those we have not yet been granted the grace to see.”
Claire had always wondered what that last phrase meant; they were real things, the shadows, and everybody around this corner of the world took them very seriously.
