In Some Other World, Maybe by Goldhagen Shari

Author:Goldhagen, Shari [Goldhagen, Shari]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Coming of Age, Retail, Fiction
ISBN: 9781466848290
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2015-01-13T05:00:00+00:00

8 you always swim home

MACAU

Liam Wing promised the world should you come to Macau. He claimed you could be a part of something big, get in on the ground floor. “Ollie,” he’s said over and over on the phone. “We can be explorers in uncharted terrain.”

Because you’ve always been charmed by his enthusiasm (so much like Braden’s), you’d agreed. So after salmon season, you’d jetted off to Beijing and taken the high-speed rails all through China. Then to Thailand and Cambodia and finally Vietnam, where you’d spent weeks zipping around dirt roads on a motorcycle and had taken up with Mai, the exotic French-Vietnamese desk clerk at your hotel. An hour ago you boarded an Airbus A320 from Hanoi to Hong Kong, where Liam and his brave new world await you.

Somewhere over Moaming the plane bounces into a patch of rough air, and passengers grumble and grip their armrests. The pilot guns the engines, seeking something smoother, and you start thinking about throttle and velocity in a way you haven’t in years, not since you fled Chicago and Advantage Electric and your Ph.D. program. And you find yourself smiling, remembering how you used to be afraid to fly, even after you’d studied the mechanics and understood what kept planes in the sky—understood a little of what your father loved about the defiance of gravity.

Dad had tried to link up with you while you were in China. For days the two of you volleyed e-mails back and forth about meeting for dinner at a Mexican place he loved in Shanghai. But his flight got diverted, and then you were visiting a friend from the Jezebel Jones who taught English in Yangpu, and somehow you and your father couldn’t make it work. You’d figured he was only being nice and wasn’t all that serious about it anyway—like when you were a kid, before the Piper Saratoga, and he’d promise to take you to Six Flags or The Taste of Chicago if he was home—but this morning he’d left a voice mail about the two of you getting together in Hong Kong soon. So maybe he was serious.

Your father and aerodynamics are still on your mind an hour later when you find Liam at the baggage area and he throws his arms around you in an awkward man hug.

“You ready for the start of the rest of your life?” Liam asks, excitement and promise seeping from every pore.

And even though you’re still lost in a world of jet engines and family, you have to nod and agree; Liam has that effect on you, always has. Since that first conversation on the deck of the Jezebel Jones, when he said the two of you were astronauts, not knowing that you had actually worked alongside people who designed things for NASA (of course, you hadn’t told that to the skipper either, had simply said you’d done extensive work on engines, implying those engines were ones that powered boats).

Indeed, you had felt like an astronaut all that first season on the Jones, your life so much different than would ever have seemed possible.

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