I sit all day on the sofa, the crochet pattern imprinting itself onto my sweaty legs, watching an I Dream of Jeannie marathon and waiting for my parents to show up and take me home. This cozying does not make the objects look cozier it makes them look ashamed. Rhonda crochets cozies not only for the extra toilet paper rolls, as I’ve seen in some of my friends’ bathrooms, but also for the phone and the phone book and the dog and my uncle’s guns and both of their toothbrushes. No, not “hobby,” exactly: her crocheting is a compulsion, perhaps some kind of illness. Uncle Jim is married to a woman named Rhonda, whose hobby is crochet. This story starts when my parents drop me off at my uncle Jim’s house, on the way to the hospital where my little sister is about to be born. She lives in Athens, GA, where she is working on a PhD. Amy Bonnaffons' work has appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Kenyon Review, among others, and has been read on This American Life. The characters in The Wrong Heaven seek to solve their conflicts and dilemmas, both spiritual and sexual, in all the wrong places. The following is from Amy Bonnaffons' collection, The Wrong Heaven.
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