The Fairytale Life of Dorothy Gale by Virginia Kantra EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Author: Virginia Kantra
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Our mother was Judy Gale. The artist. Every time she left us behind
with a friend or a nanny or (when friends and nannies couldn’t be
found) bundled us off to Kansas, I’d tell my sister we were off on an
adventure. Like the Pevensies fleeing wartime London or Harry taking the
train to Hogwarts. Sometimes we were princesses in exile or orphans
escaping cruel relatives. I dropped the orphans bit after our mother died.
But lots of stories I told my little sister still began that way, with children on
a trip into the magical unknown.
There was nothing magic about the English department office at Trinity
College Dublin. The metal frame chairs and cinderblock walls were straight
from my high school media center. The familiar smells of toner and floor
cleaner overlaid the whiff of graduate student desperation in the air. Except
for the glimpse of Georgian architecture through the windows and the bust
of Yeats on a filing cabinet, I could almost be back in Kansas.
But this was Ireland, land of poets and fairies, witches and warriors,
Jonathan Swift and Derek Mahon. I was finally moving on. Getting
somewhere. Leaving my old self behind.
And maybe I was still telling myself stories to make me feel better.
I smiled hopefully at the gatekeeper behind the desk. A round woman, a
cardigan draping her plump shoulders, green-framed glasses on a silver
chain around her neck. “Hi. I’m here to see Dr. Eastwick?”
Her glasses flashed at me. “Sorry?”
“I have an appointment. Ten o’clock.” My flight from Newark had been
delayed. I’d taken a cab straight from the Dublin airport so I wouldn’t be
late.
“You’re American.”
“Yes.”
She tapped her keyboard. “Name?”
My heart raced. I cleared my throat. “Dorothy Gale.”
After my maternal grandmother. Dodo and Toto, Toni dubbed us when
she was small. I’d never minded my old-fashioned name. It was unique,
right? Mine. Nothing to be ashamed of. Until this past year, when Destiny
Gayle, the titular character of a novel by critically acclaimed author
Grayson Kettering, spent thirty-two weeks at the top of the New York Times
and Amazon bestseller lists. It wasn’t just the similarity in our names.
Destiny dressed like me, in vintage skirts and thrift shop sweaters. (“Her
wardrobe reflected her mind,” the novel’s hero said on page 32, “only
gently used, full of secondhand ideas and castoff morality.”) Plus, anyone
who read his bio knew Grayson Kettering was an adjunct faculty member at
the University of Kansas. And anyone who did a little digging—the features
writer at New York magazine, say, or a book reviewer at the Washington
Post or the host of Entertainment Tonight—could discover he had a twoyear relationship with a graduate student there who bore a strong
resemblance to brown-haired, cow-eyed Destiny.
Casting had recently started on Destiny Gayle, the movie. Fortified by a
box of tissues and a cup of tea, I’d watched the ET interview from the
couch in my aunt’s living room.
“Was she the real-life inspiration for your character?” the host had asked
Gray
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