A Thousand Miles from Nowhere by John Gregory Brown

Author:John Gregory Brown
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Published: 2016-06-28T04:00:00+00:00

When Marge dropped him off back at the hotel, Henry sat on the bed and watched for hours the soundless television and all the pictures from New Orleans, the boats saving people from flooded homes and tree branches, the helicopters lifting men and women and children from shredded roofs, dead bodies floating facedown in black water, the crowd gathered outside the convention center somehow growing larger and larger, swelling until there seemed to be thousands and thousands there, all of them desperate and hungry and thirsty, burned by the sun, and he kept watching as he ate the food Latangi had left by his door, and he watched until he was worried he would fall asleep and wind up assaulted by his dreams, so he found the key Latangi had given him, and he walked down to the other end of the hotel, and suddenly here he was, sitting at Latangi’s husband’s desk.

A dead man’s desk.

Yes, and all the clatter in his head: A dead man’s desk and a bright pink fig and “Poor Poor Pitiful Me” and Clarissa Nash and Tomas Otxoa and oh Lord, make a way out of no way, and oh Lord, blossom and blossom and ache.

Quiet now, he whispered to himself, and he opened one of the desk drawers. Inside was a cardboard box and inside the box a manuscript bound with some kind of decorative string, a rainbow of colors woven and twisted together. He read the title page—The Creator’s Mistress by Mohit Chakravarty—then the dedication to almighty Shiva and Parvati and to the beloved son Ganesha and to the princess of all earthly princesses, Latangi Chakravarty, beloved wife, and with prayers and gratitude to the esteemed Rabindranath, and Henry turned the page and—though he was desperately afraid to add yet another voice to all the wretched others clanging and swarming in his head—he began to read.

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