First Chapter First Paragraph Tuesday Intros - Invisible Ellen; Shari Shattuck

Every Tuesday I host First Chapter First Paragraph Tuesday Intros, where I share the first paragraph or (a few) of a book I am reading or thinking about reading soon.

Invisible Ellen; Shari Shattuck

Putnam - 2014

"Occasionally, though not very often, Ellen Homes would wonder how she gained two hundred seventy-three pounds and simultaneously disappeared.  Not that she necessarily need an answer, or even wanted one, because, simply put, being unseen was everything Ellen ever wanted.

It was also all she could remember.  Her mother, a noun she used for lack of an inoffensive alternative, had apparently at some point forgotten she had a daughter.  Ellen had a vague memory of the woman packing up vodka bottles and a glass pipe before leaving her alone in a grubby room of a halfway house when she was five.  The only thing she clearly recalled from that event was the gnawing hunger, and the joy of eating a cinnamon bun someone had eventually given her.  But the details of life with that woman, and especially that particular day, Ellen enthusiastically and effectively smothered, perfectly under artificial non dairy dessert topping, or gravy."

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