Bellevue Square by Michael Redhill

Author:Michael Redhill
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Doubleday Canada
Published: 2017-09-19T04:00:00+00:00

“WHERE IS THIS BOOKSTORE?” Ian’s voice. I’m awake again. “You talked a lot about a bookstore in the spring, but you know you work at Ryerson University, Jean. Right? You’re a teacher. You had an accident, but everything’s okay now.”

“I have a headache. Why does my head hurt?”

“You’ve had a procedure—don’t touch that.”

There’s a tube going into the top of my hand. “What is this?”

“It’s just saline.”

“Ian, Ingrid doesn’t know Katerina. She’s never met her. So who was Katerina seeing?”

“I’m sorry, sweetie, I don’t know who you’re talking about.”

“Why am I here now? Where are the boys?”

“Try to calm down, sweetheart. The surgeons warned us that you would lose some memory. You knew you were going to have this operation. I can show you the consent form you signed.” A nurse enters. “I think she’s in pain,” Ian says. “The doctor said she can have up to two hundred milligrams an hour.”

The nurse smiles down at me like she’s hiding something. “Hello, dear. We’re awake, are we?” Her hand goes to the top of my head, but I don’t feel her touching me. “How much so far?” she asks a machine. “I can push fifty.”

“When did I have an operation? Ian? Where am I?”

“There it goes,” says the nurse.

“It’s September ninth, Jean, 2016, and you’re in the ICU at Toronto Western. You’re just waking up. It won’t make sense to you for a—Should she be touching those bandages?”

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