They wish these people had never set foot in Chuck’s Donuts, and they keep their eyes closed, holding each other, until suddenly they hear a loud blow, then another, followed by a dull thud.
Just a couple of days removed from wanting to know everything about this man and wanting hm to come back they are begging for him to leave.
Will a man sent by the uncle one day appear at her doorstep, or at Chuck’s Donuts, or in the alley behind Chuck’s Donuts, and right their wrong for them? A promise is a promise, yet, in the end, it is only that.
This immediately makes me think the man with the apple fritter is the ex-husband making sure the uncle or someone related doesn't come to the store
“It just seems like he’s always looking for someone, you know?” Kayley says. “Maybe he loves someone but that person doesn’t love him back.”
This jumps out at me because they keep looking at him, waiting on him and have the divorced father who kind of fits the mold of what they are describing here
It isn’t the cheating she’s mad about, the affair, her daughters’ frivolous stepmother who calls her with misguided attempts at reconciliation.
This makes me interpret that she isn't mad at her husband that much, but rather disappointed with herself for letting this happen which is wrong. She is mad that she is left by herself to look after the 24 hour restaurant and her two daughters.
they looked out the store windows and saw a whirl of energy circling them.
Contrast to how now they can only see their reflection out the window and are forced to look at a broken street lamp
Imagine the downtown streets before the housing crisis, before the city declared bankruptcy and earned the title Foreclosure Capital of America
Starting to show how and why the main character is struggling, first her husband's second family and now the financial struggles of he town surrounding her.
“Isn’t it a bit early for an apple fritter?” the owner’s twelve-year-old daughter, Kayley, deadpans from behind the counter, and Tevy, four years older, rolls her eyes and says to her sister, “You watch too much TV.”
It's very weird and interesting to me that the daughter's 12 and 16 year old children are working at 3 o'clock in the morning