![]() If she works at it long enough and stays very quiet, something may squat down and settle there. She builds it inside herself like a nest, piece by fragile piece. She tries not to think hard on this feeling, does not want to crush it in her over-eager hands. If Clementine does not grow to love the mining life, she at least finds herself feeling a thing like happiness. She takes half a ragged quilt in trade and for a time patches holes with scraps of dainty flowers, blooming pink against the dirt and sweat of camp. The miners shuffle onto her father’s claim, nod and mumble and pay her in gold dust or fresh meat or old fabric. ![]() She coaxes unraveled threads back into line and reinforces thin knees, thin elbows, thinner spirits. She sews for miners who have left their wives behind or had no wives to leave. Salina Street - Syracuse - NY - 13202 LOADING. Over and over Clementine patches her last dress, her father’s tattered canvas bags. Oh My Darling - American Comfort Food oh my darling HOURS Oh My Darling: M-Th: 12pm - 9pm, Fri: 12 pm - 10pm Sat: Brunch 11am - 3pm, Dinner 4pm - 10pm Sun: Brunch 11am - 3:30pm, Dinner 5pm - 9pm The Fitz: Thur - Sat: 6pm - late Oh My Darling - 321 S. She doesn’t concern herself with those memories. She remembers what it was like to live in a house, but she misses it less. The sun tans her skin honey brown, fades her glowing yellow hair to the color of light on mist. Soon she can skip over the rocks, up and down the hills, easy as a goat. Gone but not forgotten, Clementine shines at the narrative’s core, fighting for her future, aching to be more than “a tangle of bones, a handful of dust scattered by the wind.”Ĭlementine’s feet harden. ![]() With O’Toole’s sharp, clever prose as your guide, your decisions steer Clementine’s fate. As Clementine navigates the perils and risks of the old West-from her father’s land claim in the California goldfields to a San Francisco boarding house to the promise of the mountains, the plains, the river-you decide where the story will go. In Oh My Darling, Cate O’Toole has constructed a winding narrative with many pathways, each road following the fifteen year-old miner’s daughter, immortalized in the American folk canon by her namesake ballad, through a journey laced with triumph and ruin at every turn. “At the last dusty town in a line of dusty towns Clementine’s story begins.
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