Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin

Trash

Scrupulously, ridiculously honest—that was Mary. A reaction to the way she was raised: her mother’s picaresque embellishments, her sister’s history of insurance fraud. She arrived at the threshold of adult life with a visceral horror of falsehood, exaggeration, misleading or noncommittal statements. No cutting a corner, shaving an edge, downplaying or soft-pedaling could be tolerated.