Beth Jenkins, raised in an Irish Catholic family outside Chicago, with her father a retired Chicago cop, would not acknowledge to her family that she was gay, fearing how they would react. She moved to New York, visiting her home occasionally. At Christmas just over three years before the story begins, and against her better judgment, she responds to the when-I-you-going-to-find-a-man question by coming out.
Any hopes of staying are shattered when her father says he will not sit at the same table with this creature. For three years she speaks to neither her parents. Then her sister calls. "Dad is dying. He's turned over a new leaf." She agrees to come, but only with her girlfriend, with whom she is living in Brooklyn.
This is the story of their journey to Beth's home and what happens when she gets there.
Eve Kendall and MeEve Kendall. Why I am on a train heading from New York to Chicago can be understood in reference to Eve Kendall. She was a character played by Eva Marie Saint in Alfred Hitchcock’s “North by Northwest.” She meets Roger O. Thornhill—Cary Grant—on a train from New York to Chicago. He happens to be on the run from the police (and James Mason) and sneaks onto the Twentieth Century Limited at Grand Central. They meet in the dining car and, realizing his predicament, she hides him in her compartment. Where they spend the night. And it being Hitchcock, a lot of stuff happens. This is the one that ends up at Mount Rushmore. That movie, which I first saw when I was sixteen or seventeen, is one of my favorites. But I did not want to be Eve Kendall. I wanted to be Roger Thornhill d
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