Fourth Avenue

A place like home

In the old days (https://www.facebook.com/pg/FourthAvenueSupermarket/photos/?tab=album&album_id=496171227126511&ref=page_internal)

“In the world of dead parents, logic fails” (Sarah M. Broom, The Yellow House, 350).

The last time I entered the 4th Avenue Supermarket in Bessemer, I was looking for eggs and bacon and milk, something for a fast breakfast. We had driven my mother back home the day before: a much longer trip than need be, because my car’s transmission went bad eighty miles into the journey. So we had…