The Moon Represents My Heart by Pim Wangtechawat

Author:Pim Wangtechawat
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Time travel;The Time Traveler's Wife;Audrey Niffenegger;The Joy Luck Club;Amy Tan;Book group fiction;Book club;Hong Kong;Bangkok;Thailand;Thai;David Nicholls;Celeste Ng;The Midnight Library;pageturner;beach read;summer reads
Publisher: Oneworld Publications
Published: 2023-05-10T14:07:00+00:00

Eva

2012

Eva arrives in colours:

cream, light blue. Purple, calm and luscious.

Brown, earthy and deep, the soil itself.

Orange, like a resplendent sunrise.

From the moment she steps off the plane,

stumbling into the arms of her aunt Dorothy,

all the remnants of both their pasts mingling together,

life feels purposeful again.

‘Do you remember me?’ Eva asks.

Because for her aunt it has been eighteen years.

The older woman’s smile quiets all doubts.

Grief rests in her aunt’s eyes now, clouding the sparks Eva had noticed during her travels.

Age has made her body thicker, painted more lines on her face, but her voice is just how Eva remembers it from the past and down the phone.

‘Of course I remember you,’ Dorothy says. ‘In all these years, you have not changed for me.’

Her embrace – now tangible and firm in a way it could never be in the past – tells Eva what she has always longed to hear:

Welcome home.

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