NOTHING TO DECLARE by Mary Morris

Author:Mary Morris [Morris, Mary]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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AS I APPROACH SAN MIGUEL, MY GHOSTS CONVERGE. There are two ghosts who go with me most of the time, but there is a new one I feel as I enter my house. One ghost is my maternal grandmother whom I have often felt with me, especially in my room when I am alone at night. She is there like a warm presence and she tries to tell me the things that matter. The other is an unknown ghost whose purpose I do not know, but I believe it is someone from my family who died a sudden and horrible death. At times I think it is the dog my great-uncle Dave buried alive in mud and at other times it is a mysterious lover that one of my aunts was said to have had. This ghost behaves in a different way from my grandmother, who brings comfort and warmth. This stranger always startles me. I wake frightened, heart pounding, and I know I have been visited, but I never know why.

But as I walk up the dusty alleyway late at night, dragging my bags, and open the door of my house, I feel someone is accompanying me. There is a presence in my rooms as I go in; it is no one and nothing I know. But it is not exactly a stranger to me either. This ghost warms my rooms, makes me feel safe.

At various times ghosts or gods run my life. The ghosts I find in my rooms at night, in the eyes of brujas, in the bird nailed to the tree. While the past struggles to keep me back, the gods propel me forward. Into risk and sacrifice, choice and responsibility. The ghosts are in charge of memory; the gods' domain is destiny.

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