Chapter 13: Nash
Three and a Quarter Years
As they went around the Greene family’s Thanksgiving table, each taking a turn to say what they were thankful for, Henry couldn’t help but be spellbound by the sincere and specific things each person mentioned in their recitation. Health, weekends, each other, books, and rainbows; their lists ran the gamut.
Henry thought back to his own family’s tradition at Thanksgiving. They’d done the “what do you give thanks for around the table” thing, too, but Henry didn’t remember ever getting a warm feeling listening to them. They’d generally been vague “thanks for God’s blessings.” Or there was the old standby “thanks for the feast on the table,” but the thanks went to their god, not to the people who’d worked to create the food from field to table, or
