I couldn’t understand how we’d arrived so soon at the same muddy, tangled, flawed relationship that I had with everyone else. I felt like something dragged on a string behind a forgetful child. She is a thinker, not a doer and as she travels along with Jake, she looks back over her life and wonders how she came to be where she is. The passivity that has kept Charlotte stuck all her life strikes here to.
So, Charlotte and Jake take, first a train and then a stolen car and make their way to Florida. Like Charlotte, life has been closing in on Jake too, his young girlfriend is in a home for unwed mothers and he feels he has to rescue her. Jake Simms Jr.- escaped convict and demolition-derby driver – is a young man so inept and so without a plan as to almost be a danger to himself. What follows is a forced road trip to Florida with pathetic petty criminal Jake and a very different type of escape than Charlotte was planning.Īs kidnappings go, and this is not Charlotte’s first, it is relatively uneventful. Escape hasn’t come in quite the way she anticipated. The novel opens on the day Charlotte she goes to the bank to withdraw money to fund her escape, but she finds herself involved in a botched holdup, and is taken hostage.
My life has been a history of casting off encumbrances, paring down to the bare essentials, stripping for the journey. She has been trying to get rid of the clutter now for years, leaving furniture out in the trash in an attempt to make some space for herself, but it hasn’t worked. Her life has become too cluttered and her home is stuffed with her husband’s variously afflicted brothers, a daughter who will only answer to the name of her imaginary friend, a vaguely adopted son called Jiggs,, a house full of ‘sinners’ from her husband’s congregation, and two families worth of unbearable clutter. Earthly Possessions is the story of Charlotte Emory, who is about to walk away from a dour marriage to her a preacher-husband.
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