1- Maryna wants to know what is wrong- why is everyone behaving so oddly?
2- I expect to learn what has suddenly driven the neighborhood to evacuate with such fervor. I expect to learn some impending disaster is coming- a bomb, army, swarm of beasts/insects/undead, tornado.... I also expect to discover why Maryna and Oleg were seemingly last to know.
3- I vividly see the teenage girl pounding on the car window, car waiting in reverse, the open door "hanging" at 41, the speeding red car, the sports show on TV in the kitchen, Marshall and his video game, and the LACK of smoke in a clear sky over the trees (of my own neighborhood; not this one in a valley with maybe? trees?).
4- I feel Marshall's father's eyes viscerally- but for some reason I need to know their color to see them. I struggle to see the houses; are they big or small, on top of each other or with yards, in need of maintenance or well-kept? I intuit a classic movie picket-fence neighborhood by the end with some of the lighter imagery, but at the outset I imagined 41 as a 40+ year old ranch in mediocre condition. I am unsure of the weather- my mind first had sun, but that clouded (pun intended) as I read and was less sure.
5- Not much at this point- probably just the weather.
1. Maryna wants a comfortable home in a quiet neighborhood.
2. Looks like she's not going to get the quiet neighborhood - (or maybe she will because everyone else will move away.) But it looks like something horrible is coming (or the neighbors are believers in a new conspiracy theory??) I feel something evil is about to happen and Maryna and Oleg are unaware. There's anticipation about what the evil will be. Doesn't look climate related or they'd be aware of that.It can't be something like toxic water because that wouldn't cause such urgency to get out So....a supernatural evil?? I'm anxious to find out.
3. I see Maryna looking around her new neighborhood with confusion, the dog who almost got left behind and the boy with the video game.
4. I think it's a pretty clear introduction. I wonder what the rest of the neighbors are doing? Are they leaving? Have they already left? Where is everyone going?
5. So many questions about what is happening but I think they will be answered as the story moves along. I think I know what I am supposed to at this point in the story.
1- Maryna wants to know what is wrong- why is everyone behaving so oddly?
2- I expect to learn what has suddenly driven the neighborhood to evacuate with such fervor. I expect to learn some impending disaster is coming- a bomb, army, swarm of beasts/insects/undead, tornado.... I also expect to discover why Maryna and Oleg were seemingly last to know.
3- I vividly see the teenage girl pounding on the car window, car waiting in reverse, the open door "hanging" at 41, the speeding red car, the sports show on TV in the kitchen, Marshall and his video game, and the LACK of smoke in a clear sky over the trees (of my own neighborhood; not this one in a valley with maybe? trees?).
4- I feel Marshall's father's eyes viscerally- but for some reason I need to know their color to see them. I struggle to see the houses; are they big or small, on top of each other or with yards, in need of maintenance or well-kept? I intuit a classic movie picket-fence neighborhood by the end with some of the lighter imagery, but at the outset I imagined 41 as a 40+ year old ranch in mediocre condition. I am unsure of the weather- my mind first had sun, but that clouded (pun intended) as I read and was less sure.
5- Not much at this point- probably just the weather.
1. Maryna wants a comfortable home in a quiet neighborhood.
2. Looks like she's not going to get the quiet neighborhood - (or maybe she will because everyone else will move away.) But it looks like something horrible is coming (or the neighbors are believers in a new conspiracy theory??) I feel something evil is about to happen and Maryna and Oleg are unaware. There's anticipation about what the evil will be. Doesn't look climate related or they'd be aware of that.It can't be something like toxic water because that wouldn't cause such urgency to get out So....a supernatural evil?? I'm anxious to find out.
3. I see Maryna looking around her new neighborhood with confusion, the dog who almost got left behind and the boy with the video game.
4. I think it's a pretty clear introduction. I wonder what the rest of the neighbors are doing? Are they leaving? Have they already left? Where is everyone going?
5. So many questions about what is happening but I think they will be answered as the story moves along. I think I know what I am supposed to at this point in the story.
When do we get more?