How Should a Person Be?: A Novel From Life by Sheila Heti

Author:Sheila Heti
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2012-06-19T04:00:00+00:00

chapter 3

ANTHONY AND URI

The next several weeks I worked double shifts at the salon, to distract myself from the nothing that made up my days. One afternoon, Sholem came in to have his hair washed. He said he was still feeling dirty from making his ugly painting, and he wanted to wash away that feeling. It often happened that people came to the salon for that very reason—more than anyone would guess. Seating him at a basin, I put a towel around his neck and guided his head back into the bowl, then turned on the water and adjusted the temperature on my hand. Uri had recently started me on shampooing. I put the spray near the crown of his head, and as the water flowed down, I asked, “Is it too hot? Too cold?”

“Just right.”

When it came time for the conditioner, I gave him a head massage, the way I had been taught, but he was tense, his shoulders straining toward his neck, and his neck was very rigid. Then he blurted out, “Oh, why did Margaux make us do this?”

SHEILA

Do what? The Ugly Painting Competition?

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