Late Air by Jaclyn Gilbert

Author:Jaclyn Gilbert [Gilbert, Jaclyn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781503903586
Publisher: Little A
Published: 2018-11-12T16:00:00+00:00

Nancy followed a small boarded path after she passed the parking lot. The boards kept her bare feet from burning. It took her about twenty minutes to notice the first beach umbrella, green-and-yellow striped. She took stock of a few obsessive sunbathers, too, brown and oiled up over towels and lounge chairs.

Nancy was never sure how she felt about sex with Richard, whether it was love—but the act of lovemaking filled her somehow. Somehow it shadowed the emptiness and let her detach. When they were first together, he’d let her cry as long as she needed to. Murray was always at work, or on the road, running.

She’d wanted him to come with her to therapy, had wanted to believe they could touch each other again, without the image of Jean—her rigid body, her bluing lips—inside their own bodies; any touch, even the slightest brush of their hands, felt as selfish as taking a full breath or bite of food, or finding easy sleep. The things everyone else seemed to do so easily—so uninterrupted and unfazed—and she loathed the world for that, all the people who took their children for granted, who’d neglected to love their children enough, as she felt her own parents had, because they assumed they’d leave this earth before she did.

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