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422 pages, Paperback
First published March 2, 2021
"I've mourned."
"You have not had even a spare moment to do so. They expect you to be strong, to not show a bit of weakness no matter what you're going through."
"Burdens lessen when they are shared. Or will you better understand this with a story?"
He snorted. "I'm curious at how you'll tell it. Would it be a story told with animals? Of mice banding together to scare off a lion? Or ants that carry a bounty of food home? Oh, I know just the one: It'll be about birds that roll a pumpkin home?"
"It'll be a story about three impossible tasks the husband can't figure out until the wife shows him the trick."
"Don't you think it's funny," Benjy said, "that after all the time you spend asking so many questions, in the end the answer just appears right in front of you?"