You should call your brother and congratulate him on the new job, her father might say over the phone, and it would take Kate a moment to figure out what the hell he was talking about. Brother? She didn't have a brother.
"You should call your brother and congratulate him on the new job," her father might suggest during a phone call. Kate would need a moment to process these words, as they didn't make immediate sense to her.
She realized she didn't have a brother, which made her question the father’s statement. This confusion hints at themes of family dynamics and misunderstandings explored in the novel "The Engagements" by J. Courtney Sullivan.