The Jewels of the Cabots

In this fabulous short story, the crown jewel of John Cheever’s Pulitzer Prize-winning collection  The Stories of John Cheever , a man agonizes about class privilege and racism, confessing to the knowledge of a terrible crime and exposing a quiet American family’s darkest secrets. Wandering about the sleepy Connecticut town of his childhood, where residents lead lives of grueling boredom, a journalist reminisces about the Cabot children: Molly, a sweet girl and his first love; Geneva who pi