The Law of Return (1999)
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Maxine Rodburg's collection of short stories was published by Carnegie Mellon University Press in 1999; most first appeared in literary magazines, the title story in The Georgia Review as "The Newarker". In "Keer Avenue, July 1967", the young narrator, Debbie, spends a heat wave on Keer Avenue with the neighbours' boy, Larry Eisenberg. (Open Library)
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- In "Keer Avenue, July 1967", it is so hot that Debbie and Larry Eisenberg time how long an ice cube takes to melt on the hood of his mother's Pontiac, using her father's Timex, which Pop no longer wears. They take turns with the watch and the cubes (p. 134); her sister Marlene laughs at them (p. 131), and Larry reminds her that her father said they could use the Timex whenever they wanted, since her mother gave him a new watch last Hanukah. The maker is named; the model is not.
Source text: Larry held my father’s watch, a Timex Pop no longer wore, and I said “Go” and “Stop.” (Maxine Rodburg, The Law of Return, scan cataloged as Carnegie Mellon University Press, 1999, p. 121, in "Keer Avenue, July 1967"; Internet Archive scan OCR)