Glory Be by Danielle Arceneaux EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Author: Danielle Arceneaux
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Glory Broussard was tired of waiting. She gured this barista was new, and
she would know since she was a regular at CC’s Coffee House. With each
drink order, he nodded and ipped through the pages of a thick manual,
going back and forth between the espresso machine and the book.
It didn’t help that he was grinning like a goddamn fool at that white
woman. She was wearing a pink ribbed tank top, and as far as Glory could
tell, no bra. Her jean shorts were so scant that you could see the bottom
curve of her ass. Glory had seen enough of this recently at the Acadiana
Mall to know it was not an accident but a trend, and a disgraceful one at
that. Wet hair crept down to her waist, making her look like a creature that
had crawled out of the Atchafalaya swamp.
Glory edged up to the counter, closely behind the braless woman.
“Excuse me,” she said to the barista. “Are you the only one working behind
the counter? Y’all should be better staffed for the after-church crowd.”
“I’m not sure. I’m new here.”
“Clearly.” She wiped the sweat from her forehead, a useless gesture in
Louisiana this time of year.
“Be with you as soon as I can,” he said, knocking a quart of milk onto
the oor.
Glory squinted at the man, but since it was Sunday, she decided to
summon her inner reserves of charity and bite her lip. e woman with the
exposed derriere turned around. She scanned Glory’s red dress, red shoes,
and red hat with a jaunty, dyed-to-match ostrich plume, covered her mouth,
and snickered. Earlier that morning, Glory had attended a breakfast with
the Acadiana Red Hat Society, a group of pious, black Catholic women.
Most of them had stayed for the group’s special benediction with Father
Romero after regular mass. Now that he was practically famous, those
women apped around him like a bunch of ightless birds. But Glory didn’t
have time for that. Sundays were when she made her money, and she had to
get to work.
Maybe that derisive little laugh wasn’t aimed at her all-red ensemble but
at the essence of Glory herself. If she uffed her hair just right and her
makeup was squared away, she could still see herself as Miss Lafayette,
colored division winner. But nowadays most people could only see the old.
Melanin had been a barrier against the worst ravages of time, but black does
eventually crack. e lines around her face and mouth had nally settled in,
as lines do. And since the contentious divorce, the expanse of her hips had
widened thanks to too many plate dinners. e hot plates at Dwight’s
Family Restaurant were cold comfort for the humiliation.
e barista working Glory’s last nerve wasn’t the only thing that was new
at CC’s Coffee House that morning. She eyed a slew of changes that had
somehow been made since last Sunday. New uniforms. Merchandise for
sale. For Christ’s sake, what the heck was going on? Why can’t folks leave
good enough alone? Glory walked up to the counter, just beside the woman,
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