Thanksgiving at the Malcolmson’s

Modeled on the Cyclops episode of Joyce’s “Ulysses”

The hostilities began at half-past one, after the supplication had been delivered and the victuals passed.

House Malcolmson’s table brimmed with bronzed tranches des dindes, buttery mountains of pommes de terre en purée, flaxen rods of the state’s meilleur maïs, glistening quantities of haricots…