After the War Is Over: A Novel
His hair, rather charmingly, was standing on end, and his days-old beard had a thread of lint caught up in the hairs.
I've been reading a lot of nonfiction books lately and found lint in one of them. Oh happy day!
The book is titled Now Write! Mysteries. In it Harley Jane Kozak, a funny writer of mysteries, wrote a section called The Telling Detail. A telling detail is one thing a writer says about a character to keep them in the reader's mind. Here's her linty entry:
"Elderly" becomes "She had grandmother hair, so fragile and fine and soft it might have been lint plucked from the clothes dryer and stuck atop her head."
Love it!
