A Weekend in New York by Benjamin Markovits

Author:Benjamin Markovits [Benjamin Markovits]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780571338078
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: 2018-08-21T16:00:00+00:00

and sent it. Afterwards, she sat on her bed in her running shorts, with her hands on her knees.

A minute later, she heard her name being called. The apartment had thick walls and heavy doors. Voices traveled unpredictably, everything sounded muffled or far away. But it was her mother calling her, and Jean shouted out, ‘What, I’m here. I’m here,’ then stood up, a little stiffly, and went to find her.

‘What,’ she said.

They were standing by the door to the elevator, waiting to go out.

‘We’re going out,’ Liesel said.

She had a date with some woman from the Village Voice. They were supposed to meet for coffee at an Italian place by Washington Square, and Bill had to get to Grand Central – he was taking the train up to Yonkers to see Rose.

‘Send her my love,’ Jean said.

‘I’m sure she would love to see you,’ Bill told her.

‘I’m kind of worn out.’

‘Okay.’

‘I’m a little disgusting right now.’

‘Okay. I just didn’t want you not to come if you wanted to come.’

‘I want to see her but not now.’

‘Okay,’ he said.

It broke her heart a little, the way she could disappoint him; but the truth is, he didn’t really mind that much, Jean knew that. She was just being sentimental. And when they left, Jean had the apartment to herself. Susie was coming in that afternoon, which left Jean three or four hours to kill. She showered and checked her phone, to see if Henrik had replied. When he hadn’t, she went back to bed, thinking she could read at least. In fact, she started falling asleep and put her book face down on the duvet cover and closed her eyes. Today was supposed to get warmer, you could hear it outside, in the traffic and birdsong, and she lay listening for the sound her phone made when an email arrived, then she was out cold.

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