MARGARET McMULLAN is the author of five novels, including When I Crossed No-Bob (Houghton Mifflin) and In My Mother’s House (Picador). She is a professor of English at the University of Evansville in Evansville, Indiana, where she raises tomatoes and basil every summer with her husband and son.

The Swing

by Margaret McMullan, December 2007 (Issue 384)