Think of England

Two cataclysmic events occur on February 9, 1964. The Beatles appear on The Ed Sullivan Show and later that night, nine-year-old Jane MacLeod's life changes forever. It has been said that children are good observers but poor interpreters. Jane's interpretation of the events of that evening shapes her life in ways she doesn't recognize. Think of England follows Jane from an intense love affair in the ex-pat scene in punk-era London to working motherhood in New York to a family reunion in the country -- and a reckoning with the ghost that has stood between her and her dream of a happy family.

Alice Elliott Dark is the author of In the Gloaming and Naked to the Waist. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's, Prize Stories: O. Henry, The Best American Short Stories, and The Best American Short Stories of the Century.