Brother in Ice by Alicia Kopf

Author:Alicia Kopf
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: contemporary fiction;literary fiction;novel;memoir;auto-fiction;translation;translated fiction;women’s literary fiction;rite of passage;family;polar explorers;Catalan;Catalonia; Spain;autism;autistic;Shackleton;Amundsen;polar regions;North Pole;South Pole;ice;snow;snowflake;Philip Hoare;Leviathan;The Sea Inside;Rising Star Falling Tide;RISINGTIDEFALLINGSTAR;Helen Macdonald;H is for Hawk;Max Porter;Grief is the Thing with Feathers
Publisher: And Other Stories Publishing
Published: 2018-03-21T17:54:23+00:00

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I find the clothing you gave me everywhere, R. It envelops my body, contains my feet and when I go to pay, it’s the leather wallet. In winter, shoes; in summer, trousers; when I pull out the coat I rarely wear, a shirt appears hung underneath it. Perhaps you don’t even remember all these things that embrace me, that were “ours.” When you were out of work, I worried about you impulsively buying things you thought would please me. Despite that, I accepted those gifts with the same equivocal feeling I had when my father, on the dole, would take us to a restaurant. That sense of excitement mixed with uncertainty and guilt. How could I accept them? Why did you give me all those gifts? Now I regret not having been the one to give them to you: clothes, shoes, perfume. Everything that could prolong my presence in you.

Because objects last longer than feelings.

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