Empty Houses by Brenda Navarro

Author:Brenda Navarro
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Daunt Books
Published: 2021-09-15T00:00:00+00:00

PART THREE

WHY DO WE CRY when we’re born? Because we never should have entered this world in the first place.

DETERMINED THAT MY BODY should reflect my state of mind, I waited in vain for some kind of illness to come. I couldn’t look at my own image. Still today I avoid mirrors. I don’t like seeing who I am. But I also discovered that it wasn’t I who inhabited this body. My body was a container, a kind of empty courtyard reverberating with distant city sounds. The empty house, structurally sound but never lived in, bleak. The white elephant. Maybe that’s why Daniel came out autistic and was destined to find communication so hard, so he didn’t have to interact with me. Maybe that’s why Vladimir kept running away from me, maybe that’s why he left and moved so far away, excusing himself from my inadequate personality. Maybe Fran never loved me but circumstances obliged him to stick around. And maybe that’s why Nagore came into our room one day and told us she was moving back to Spain. Her body had changed and it now contained a woman who was resolutely alive.

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