Clues

Young, impressionable, and spending far too much of her summer at her married neighbor's house, the narrator comes to envy Linda's life-and her handsome, irresponsible husband-in all the wrong ways.
The stories in Red Plaid Shirt span twenty years of Diane Schoemperlen's challenging and innovative writing. Told in her fresh and often deadpan comedic voice, they offer a compulsively readable mix of deeply felt emotion and finely wrought intellect.