In a place of manicured lawns and pastel conformity, kindness opens the most unexpected door. It begins when Peg, an Avon lady with dwindling sales, climbs a dark hill to the one house she’s never visited. There, in an attic where dust sparkles in a slant of sun, she finds him. Edward: gentle, pale, and tragically unfinished, with gleaming scissors where his hands should be. In an act of simple...
