To See the Moon Again by Jamie Langston Turner

Author:Jamie Langston Turner
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Penguin Group US
Published: 2014-07-06T16:00:00+00:00

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THEY arrived in New York City on a clear, sparkling afternoon and found the Warwick Hotel. Their room was on the eleventh floor, on the front of the building, overlooking the Avenue of the Americas. Julia pulled back the curtain at the window and looked down at the street crawling with traffic, relieved that they had made their way through it in one piece.

Across the street, facing the hotel, was an office building. Julia could see a woman watering a hanging plant in one office, a group of people around a table in another, and, higher up, a man standing at the window holding a cell phone. She wondered what kind of life those people led, working in a place like that, in a city like this. She wondered if any of them had been working there on 9/11, if they still had bad dreams about what might fall out of the sky. She wondered if any of them could imagine living in a small stone house in a small Southern town and teaching at a small university.

Once Carmen had scouted out the hallways, they walked to a restaurant the concierge recommended and then down toward Times Square. I’m really in New York City, Julia kept telling herself. The crush of people, the babble of languages, the chaos of yellow taxis, the skyscrapers, the smells of streetside food and gutters and bodies—she had read about it all, seen it on the news and in movies, had always supposed it would feel claustrophobic and dangerous, but it didn’t. It felt . . . exhilarating was the only word that came to mind, although that sounded a little too dramatic.

Judging from the look on Carmen’s face, she was as swept away by the city as Julia was. Strangely, during all the time she had lived in the Northeast, she’d never been here before. They didn’t talk as they walked. They would have had to shout anyway.

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