Forever, Interrupted: A Novel by Taylor Jenkins Reid

Author:Taylor Jenkins Reid [Reid, Taylor Jenkins]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Contemporary Women, Family Life, Romance, Contemporary, General
ISBN: 9781476712833
Google: 5OjOpH6uNa4C
Amazon: 1476712824
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2013-07-09T04:00:00+00:00

lie in bed all morning until ana shows up, and she tells me to get dressed because we are going to the bookstore.

When we walk into the behemoth of a store, I follow ana along as she picks up books and puts them down. she seems to have a purpose, but I don’t much care what it is. I leave her side and walk toward the young adult section. there I find a trio of teenage girls, laughing and teasing each other about boys and hairstyles.

I run my fingers over the books, looking for titles that I now own on my own bookshelf, their pages torn and softened by Ben’s fingers. I look for names I recognize because I got them from work and brought them home to him. I never guessed correctly, the books he’d want to read. I don’t think I ever got one right. I didn’t have enough time to learn what he liked. I would have learned though. I would have studied it and learned it and figured out who he was as a book reader if I’d just been given enough time.

ana finds me eventually. By the time she has, I’m sitting on the floor next to the e-F-G section. I stand up and look at the book in her hand. “What’d ya get?”

“It’s for you. and I already paid for it,” she says. she hands it to me.

The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan didion.

“are you fucking kidding me?” I say, too loudly for a bookstore, even though I realize that’s not the same as a library.

“no,” she says. she’s taken aback by my reaction. Hell, so am I. “I just thought, you know, it’s a really popular book. there are people out there going through what you are going through.”

“you mean there are millions of misguided friends buying books for their sad friends.”

she ignores me.

“there are other people that have gotten through this, and I wanted you to know that if all those stupid people can do it, you, elsie porter, can do it. you are so strong and so smart, elsie. I just wanted you to have something in your hand you could hold and know that you can do this.”

“elsie ross,” I say, correcting her. “My name is elsie ross.”

“I know,” she says, defensively.

“you called me elsie porter.”

“It was an accident.”

I stare at her and then get back to the issue at hand.

“there is no getting through this, ana. But you won’t ever understand that because you’ve never loved someone like I love him.”

“I know that,” she says.

“no one could. Certainly not a goddamn book.”

My job is books, information. I based my career on the idea that words on pages bound and packaged help people.that they make people grow, they show people lives they’ve never seen. they teach people about themselves, and here I am, at my lowest point, rejecting help from the one place I always believed it would be.

I walk out of the bookstore.

I walk down streets with cracked pavement.

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