Pride and Prejudice and Pittsburgh by Rachael Lippincott EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Author: Rachael Lippincott
- Language: English
- Genre: Coming of Age Fiction
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April 15, 2023
“IF YOUDON’TGETDOWN here right now, you’re red!” a booming voice calls up
the steps outside our apartment. I roll my eyes as I shove my feet into my worn
Converse and double-knot the laces.
“I’d like to see you try, old man!” I call back, throwing open the door to reveal
my bald dad smirking up at me from the entryway, our dog Cooper at his feet,
tail wagging. “Good luck nding someone else who’ll work for free.”
I jog down to meet him, and he taps his watch, raising a thick eyebrow. “Six
oh one. You’re late.”
I pull my phone out of my back pocket and hold it up to him. “Six o’clock.
Your watch is o.”
“Fine, you can stay another day,” he says, his graying mustache ticking up at
the corner as he slides past me to head upstairs and sleep after working the
overnight shift.
“Don’t forget the drink delivery at noon,” he calls over his shoulder.
“Roger that.” I pat Cooper’s head on my way through the side door that
leads directly into Cameron’s Corner Shop, my usual Saturday morning duties
waiting for me.
As I make the coee, I gaze out the window at Penn Avenue, at the new
buildings, modern apartments, and hip restaurants that have moved in since I
was a kid perched on my dad’s shoulders while he made the coee. This street,
and so much of Pittsburgh, has changed over the past eighteen years.
But not Cameron’s Corner Shop, with its scued oors, sagging shelves, and
rusting sign. Our little slice of Pittsburgh has remained exactly the same, even if
the customers have changed. Regulars come for the cheap coee and scratchos. Students stumble in on Friday nights to get armfuls of snacks and mixers.
Tourists pop their heads in to ask for directions and recommendations. And the
bougie people from the overpriced apartments meander in as a last resort when
they forget to buy their premium milk and ancient-grain bread, settling for 2
percent and cardboard white.
It isn’t much, but it’s my dad’s pride and joy, his childhood dream of opening
a shop on the street where he grew up brought to life after a CVS took the place
of the one he used to visit. Something simple and homegrown and constant, for
our community, the people that have always been here and always will be here.
And that dream became my whole family’s, in a way, his love for the place and
the customers and the unusual hours infecting me and my mom.
Plus, it’s easy to be coerced when you get free chips and soda for working the
register or stocking the shelves. Can’t say no to a bag of Cheetos and a Cherry
Coke. At least not when you’re a kid, before sleeping in and dreams of your own
start to seep in. But I try not to think about that now.
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