An Amateur’s Guide to the Night (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Mary Robison
- First Published: 1983
- Type of Plot: Domestic realism
- Time of Work: The 1970's or 1980's
- Setting: Phoenicia, Indiana
- Principal Characters: Lindy, Harriet, Grandpa
- Genres: Short fiction, Domestic realism
- Subjects: Family or family life, Mothers, Parents and children, Teenagers, Mental illness, Truthfulness and falsehood, High schools or high school students, Astronomy or astronomers, Dating, Night
- Locales: Indiana, Phoenicia, IN
The Story
Lindy, a high-school senior about to graduate, has a job waitressing and busing tables at the local Steak Chateau restaurant. An average student and an amateur astronomer, she has a Frankus reflector telescope that she bought with her own money so she can watch the night sky. She enjoys examining Jupiter and the constellations but notes that on a clear night the stars are so bright that they are swimming in their own light.
Lindy often double-dates with her mother, a young-looking thirty-five-year-old. On these dates, they pass themselves off as sisters, and it...
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