Moving Forward Sideways Like a Crab by Shani Mootoo

Author:Shani Mootoo [Mootoo, Shani]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Fiction, General
ISBN: 9780385676236
Google: Ii1PAgAAQBAJ
Amazon: B00GL3OK56
Goodreads: 18780011
Publisher: Doubleday Canada
Published: 2014-01-01T05:00:00+00:00

I put that notebook down—exhaustion kept at bay by a faint breathlessness more often associated with elation—and I opened another. Considerations of privacy, and the invasion of such, might have given someone else pause. But he had willed the notebooks to me, and explicitly given me permission to read them.

Some sections of sidewalk along the mostly residential blocks on Eldon Street had been taken care of with diligence—cleared and salted, salted and cleared, twice a day when the accumulation came down like this. But for the most part I had to take short footsteps, bracing myself on one leg before planting the other, along a packed, uneven path narrowed by the snow shovelled from residents’ driveways and walkways, snow that in turn had been piled up along the sides from the clearing of the main roadway. This is the kind of winter people will say is the worst they’ve seen in their five, or ten or thirty, years of living in the city. The worst in their entire lives. The most snow. The coldest temperatures. The fiercest storms. The longest winter. They say this year after year. The treachery. I was terrified of slipping and losing my grip on the knapsack. As I write this I am suddenly reminded of the men with the snakes around their necks. Do you remember, Zain, how they appeared as we were walking back up the steps from the beach just after the sun had set that evening at Macqueripe?

How I wish you were with me these days, Zain. How I wish you could accompany me on my trips to the clinic to change the bandages. How I wish you could see what I look like now.

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