When Lyle Arnolds is seven, his parents drive to pick up Sara, who is eight—they are going to the state fair in Des Moines, Iowa. It is summer, and the sun hurts. The month has been full of storms. Lyle doesn’t know this will be his last anchored memory of Sara Morales as a young child. A year later, she will move to Kansas. Other memories float: he and Sara chase shadows along the Iowa River, unless it is Lake MacBride; it is March or it is April. That afternoon at the fair is certain. It is … [Read more...] about Portrait of Sara in Winter