The Encore by Charity Tillemann-Dick

Author:Charity Tillemann-Dick
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Atria Books

Overnight, Mom, Liberty, Mercina, and Glorianna have turned the hospital room into a Christmas dream. Stockings hang, lights twinkle, and exquisite paper snowflakes drift through the air. It’s lovely. My godmother, Suzie, has sent giant boxes of gifts for everyone here. Old friends visit and we exchange gifts with the other patients on our floor. In the evening, Grandma Nancy and Auntie Margot arrive with an extremely pink hat covered in glittering LED lights. There are plenty of reasons for gratitude, but I can’t help feeling like a failure for once again dragging my family to a germ-infested hospital for yet another celebration.

When Yoni leaves for New York late on Christmas Day, I don’t know how I’m going to cope. Mom’s nervousness has crescendoed into a full-throttled protest against our imminent hospital departure. In my idle moments, I daydream about dosing her with my Vicodin to calm her down. She’s convinced that if we leave the clinic, I’ll die. I’m convinced that if I don’t get out of this place soon, I just might kill someone.

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