I Am, I Am, I Am: A Memoir by Maggie O'Farrell

Author:Maggie O'Farrell
Language: eng
Format: mobi, azw3
Published: 2018-02-06T00:00:00+00:00

“A cottage hospital?” the woman repeats. She has never heard of such things. She says she is picturing a hospital with a thatched roof, smoke spiralling out of a chimney, staffed perhaps by squirrels or mice in aprons, picture-book style.

The man raises an eyebrow at her. “They exist. I assure you.” He hasn’t, she notices, let go of her hand.

They talk about reeds, about stitches, about times they have had them, because they need a break, perhaps, from talking about themselves, about their unresolvable scenario, about options, all of which seem at once unavoidable and yet unconscionable. Still holding her hand, he lifts his shirt to show her a childhood scar on his abdomen; she sees a tanned slice of stomach, the waistband of his underwear riding above his jeans, a line of hair disappearing south. She wants to turn away, she wants to keep looking; she wants to bite him, like a peach. She thinks, how can we? How can we not? This is a bad idea, this is the best idea, the only idea; she is looking for a private, shielded place, she is scanning for a way to make good her escape. The moment seesaws between them.

Suddenly a dog appears, out of nowhere, out of the forest, popping out of the trees like a jack-in-a-box. It has a half-white, half-black face and a waving plume of a tail. It bounds towards them, as if they are the two people it most wants to see in the whole wide world, circling them, leaping and yapping, its tail swishing from side to side, its face split wide in a canine grin.

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