Sleepwalk by Dan Chaon

Author:Dan Chaon
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Henry Holt and Co.

An old Nina Simone song.

I can remember it playing in a motel room in Cape May, New Jersey, and my mom was dancing close with an important customer and the big picture window looked out on the gingerbread houses along the beachfront promenade, and Nina Simone sang: I hold out my hand, and my heart will be in it, and I remember the crazy sorrow of her voice as I stood in the closet holding a syringe, waiting for my mother to dance her mark into my range.

And I don’t know why there is such a sharp brightness in this ordinary memory, except that it’s Nina’s voice, the way it possesses you, colonizes you with its ache.

It rolls you back into Cammie, into your unsolvable problem.

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