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In an early scene, a mother and two young daughters return from gathering sour cherries, using comfort gestures and shared imaginative language to steady hunger, fatigue, and uncertainty. The setting expands through the family’s remote life, local geography, and animal companions—especially the roaming peacocks and a long-sustaining garden routine. Story momentum builds from intimate detail toward larger, unsettled forces of the night.","BY E M I LY R U S K O V I C H  \nNightjar Idaho  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nRandom House  \nAn imprint and division of Penguin Random House LLC 1745 Broadway, New York, NY 10019  \n[randomhousebooks.com](randomhousebooks.com)  \n[penguinrandomhouse.com](penguinrandomhouse.com)  \nCopyright © 2026 by Emily Ruskovich  \nPenguin Random House values and supports copyright. Copyright fuels creativity, encourages diverse voices, promotes free speech, and creates a vibrant culture. 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Henry Prize Stories 2016 (New York: Vintage Books, 2015) .  \nHardcover ISBN 9780812994025  \nEbook ISBN 9780812994032  \nB O O K T EA M : Production editor: Evan Camfield • Managing editor: Rebecca Berlant • Production manager: Katie Zilberman • Copy editor: Sheryl Rapée-Adams • Proofreaders: Hannah Birenz, Emily  \nCutler  \nBook design by Kevin Quach, adapted for ebook by Arienne Dinh  \nCover design: Lucas Heinrich Cover illustration: Dea/G. Dagli Orti/Getty Images  \nThe authorized representative in the EU for product safety and compliance is Penguin Random House Ireland, Morrison Chambers, 32 Nassau Street, Dublin D02 YH68, Ireland. 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They scratched at their tongues like little animals and looked at Rebecca as if she had done this on purpose, promising sweet cherries and delivering these awful ones instead.  \n“I didn’t know,” she said, not meaning to laugh, but laughing for reasons she would never be able to tell them. In apology for this laughter, she petted the sun-warmed cap of Madeline’s hair and then touched her fingertip to the deep dimple on Dotty’s chin, her usual gestures of comfort. Madeline was four, Dotty nearly two, and all three of them were hungry and sweaty and tired and tick-ridden from the hour spent trudging through brush and briar to get to this tree. Rebecca’s arms were aching from carrying Dotty. Madeline’s new dress was clotted with burrs.  \nEven so, it was worth it to have found the tree. It was Grant who had told her it was here, that he’d eaten these very cherries as a boy.  \n“We could take some cherries to Papa’s peacocks,” said Madeline. Though only four, she was adept at salvaging experiences. She hated nothing more than disappointment.  \nDotty clapped her hands and said “Hiss,” her word for sister. What she meant was that Hiss’s idea was a good one.  \nSo the three of them gathered the fallen cherries and tied them up in Madeline’s jacket; the sack they had brought for this purpose had been lost  \nalong the way. 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