Chapter 37
Sunday is spent lazing on the shore—Gavin slathered with suntan lotion and stretched out on the sand beside Brody, who reads under a beach umbrella to avoid the sun. “It fades tattoos,” he explains, liberally dousing himself with SPF 30 as Gavin tries to get some color. Evie splashes in the waves, alternating between making friends with other children playing in the water and racing back to show her father and Brody the treasures she finds in the breakers. She seems to tan without even trying, while at the end of the day Gavin feels sticky and reeks of coconut oil, but his skin is still the same pallid shade it was before. It’ll take more than one day basking in the sun to lose his frumpy college professor tint.
They’re back on the road after dinner Sunday night, and by the ti
