Doesn’t have to be, if that doesn’t sound too vain. For now, Adam and Polly sit on their stools with their secrets and their drinks (he orders red wine, and regrets this when it comes refrigerated she has whiskey - on the rocks, of course), sizing each other up. “Sunburn” is full of characters who at critical moments fail to ask the obvious: people who hold back because they’re reluctant to betray their position or because showing interest might encourage someone to fall in love with them or because they aren’t smart enough to be curious or because they dread having their fears confirmed.īut this is all in the future.
“Why would a redhead well into her 30s make such a rookie mistake?” It’s the first of many unspoken questions. Polly Costello is on the run, not from one past but several, and Adam Bosk is hunting for something, though perhaps not the thing he thinks. And yet here they are, two strangers who find themselves on neighboring stools at the local bar slash restaurant, the High-Ho.
It’s a place people drive through, heading somewhere else: the coast, the city. $26.99.Ī June evening in Belleville, Del., an unremarkable little town surrounded by cornfields and chicken farms.
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