She watched me as she chewed her gum with concentation, lips pursed.
Open Door, Iosi Havilio
As I was reading Open Door, by Iosi Havilio, from And Other Stories I tripped on the “lips pursed”. What does that really mean? A page of images shows a variety of lips even in the first six images. A dictionary is not much help, talking mostly about handbags. Though that might be because the word is not used in that way very often.
In this case, with the girl chewing, it well it gets you to thinking. That’s a great thing for a book to do.