Under the 82nd Airborne by Deborah Eisenberg

Author:Deborah Eisenberg
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 2011-06-24T00:00:00+00:00

“What a character,” Danny says as the doorman holds the door open onto the bright, noisy street. How loud everything is out here! “Literally gave you the shirt off his back, huh? If he decides to stick around, we’ll probably be seeing a lot of him. Look, I got a parking space right here. Is that luck, or what?” His face is an impenetrable mask of sweetness, well disposed and as satisfied as if he’d just rolled the evening up and tucked it back into his pocket. He reminds her of someone, Cheryl thinks. Oh, yes: he reminds her of Danny.

Cheryl climbs into the car next to him. A ride home, why not? She is fantastically tired, truly exhausted, and it won’t be much fun, later, to wake up. She closes her eyes, and Danny bobs up in the pitching dimness and away. All her surroundings are coming loose, peeling off as the dimness balloons—her antecedents, chunks of her life crumple like Danny and blow past. There is nothing she recognizes, no one even to wave to! What a pity—she smiles slightly, and an instant before she is engulfed by a blissful wave of fatigue she opens her eyes and sees the man who was Danny smiling, too—what a pity that she so eagerly handed Judith over, in a version as diminutive and harmless as Judith ever rendered herself, to serve the transient purposes of a stranger. It would have been so simple just to let Judith out, all ravenous and fractured and appalling, to make some splendid uproar in commemoration of this departure. She thinks her mother might have done that, for her, with pleasure.

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