Valerie by Sara Stridsberg

Author:Sara Stridsberg
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, AUGUST 1962

MARILYN MONROE IS DEAD

Inside the phone booth in the student dorm during the hot summer of 1962, you call home over and over again to tell Dorothy you have been accepted to do postgraduate research. Some middle-class boy has dropped out at the last minute and you have been given his place. Cosmo is happy and invites you onto the roof for cigars, champagne, and marshmallows.

VALERIE: Valerie Jean Solanas is going to be a university researcher.

COSMO: Did you get hold of her?

VALERIE: There’s no answer.

COSMO: Come and sit here.

VALERIE: There are only happy endings.

COSMO: What do you wish for, Valerie?

VALERIE: I wish I hadn’t gotten this place because a middle-class boy dropped out. I wish I had a hundred thousand Sprague Dawley white rats.

COSMO: I’m so proud of you. Now you can do what you want. No limits, no compromises.

VALERIE: It was just a waiting-list place.

COSMO: That doesn’t matter. You got it because you deserve it.

VALERIE: I still have to raise my own money.

COSMO: But you’re the department’s shining star, just as much as ever. Everyone knows that.

VALERIE: I still have to get myself a pearl necklace for the seminars. And an oh-so-respectable frock.

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