CHAPTER 39Emma
Emma thought that Katherine was far better at being a girl than she was. She shaved her legs every other day and washed her hair and blew it dry on the days she didn’t. She kept a bin full of skin creams and hair products below her sink, a good pair of tweezers in her medicine cabinet. Most of her bras were trimmed in lace and she owned several pairs of thongs, which she wore to work when her pants were sheer and she didn’t want the outline of her underwear to show.
Emma discovered this by surprise one evening when Katherine agreed to meet her in the Mission after work for dinner. Katherine had a job in the city, editing websites for a new dot-com, often not leaving the office until close to six.
That evening, she had come straight to the Salvadoran restaurant where they
