Performed by Robert Sean Leonard
A woman from a family of Creole planters, the last of the line, depends on the kindness of a piano tuner in order to leave her house and take her place in the world.
The Piano Tuner by Tim Gatreaux. Copyright © 1998 by Tim Gatreaux. First published in Harpers Magazine. Collected in Wedding With Children by Tim Gatreaux (Picador).