Teaser Tuesdays

Please avoid spoilers!

Grab your current read.
Let the book fall open to a random page.

Share with us two (2) “teaser” sentences from that page, somewhere between lines 7 and 12.

You also need to share the title of the book that you’re getting your “teaser” from … that way people can have some great book recommendations if they like the teaser you’ve given!

Of course by the time her labor commenced Addie had known, for quite some time, that her child should be named for a bird–specifically for the bird that somehow embodied her feelings during the fall of 1967 and the spring of 1968: Scarlet if she were a girl, Tanager if a boy.

“Surely lucky you were a girl,” Tom would say years later–though in fact Scarlet had always fancied the name Tanager Kavanaugh.

-In Hovering Flight, Joyce Hinnefeld