Heather, the Totality by Matthew Weiner

Author:Matthew Weiner
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Published: 2017-10-01T04:00:00+00:00

Two weeks into construction Karen began planning for Heather’s fourteenth birthday, which included many unnecessary trips to various bakeries and restaurants for firsthand inspection. Upon making reservations at two different spots, she texted her daughter to ask if she preferred French or Italian for her birthday dinner. A few minutes passed and Karen realized that she wasn’t going to get an answer for a long time and she began walking down Lexington Avenue at a brisk pace composing other texts in her head about how she had made a reservation for four so that a friend could join and how they couldn’t eat at the house because of the dust and how she didn’t want to celebrate anything in there and what else could she say, it was Heather’s goddamn birthday, was Heather coming to dinner or not?

When Karen burst into the apartment, the extreme heat sent from the basement had not been adjusted for the unseasonably warm weather, and she quickly ran to the kitchen, where she had closed the window because of the noise, and opened it wide, vowing never to close it again. The kitchen was still bright, too close to the next building for scaffolding, and as Karen caught her breath, she lingered in the low window, her hands on the narrow sill, looking down at the ten-story fall, contemplating the dramatic possibilities for permanent change.

She recognized the panic and after taking two antihistamines with a glass of white wine she sat at the kitchen table and made the second list of her life, one column labeled “Reasons for Being,” the other “Reasons for Not.” Could Heather still be at the top of the positives? Somehow clarity slipped in and Karen began to carefully consider other paths to purpose, including returning to work in publicity or getting plastic surgery to lift her breasts and her eyes. She knew that these were good enough plans to get her through Heather’s adolescence and that an attitude of independence, no matter how false, would serve her well when her daughter had matured and come back to her. She also knew as she studied the paper that Mark was absent as a reason for anything.

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