Of course she was doing it “grudgingly” – has anyone ever mopped passionately? My heart went out to that teenage girl, worthy only of a single sentence, because, in the company of Andrea, my heart had to go somewhere. In another scene, Andrea and her mother stop at a gas station, where she spies “a teenage girl grudgingly mopping a handicapped stall”. His subject matter was the swamps, and Andrea, still struggling with her decision to abandon art college in her 20s, expresses amazement that this man can find inspiration in what she considers banal and ugly. The paintings, as she tells her friend, were "rough and beautiful", and made by a man who lived on a farm in Louisiana. There's a scene in All Grown Up, American author Jami Attenberg's newest novel, where Andrea, a failed and emotionally stunted artist, describes paintings she discovered in an art gallery in Chelsea.
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