Projection by Priscila Uppal

Author:Priscila Uppal
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Dundurn
Published: 2013-08-22T16:00:00+00:00

I would like to rest a bit at the hotel. This pleases her. Because my stomach is still bothering me, she informs me she will leave me there tonight while she works on her articles at the internet café in the shopping mall. I can sleep.

Annoyingly, I am hurt. A break from the relentlessness of my mother’s orbit would be nice, but I don’t want to be stuck in the hotel from afternoon until morning. Besides, she has proudly proclaimed several times that she has taken a hiatus from working during my visit because she wants us to spend as much time together and see as much of Brazil as possible. Has she grown bored? I’m offended—I thought I was good company, desirable company; most people think so, why not my mother?—then discard this train of thought as it matches too closely my mother’s own. And if she’s really so worried about my stomach, wouldn’t she want to watch over me, offer me hot compresses and ginger ale? I know she hasn’t acted like a mother for some time, but this would be more in line with what real mothers and daughters do. Wouldn’t she want the opportunity for such a screen test?

I offer to accompany her later to the shopping mall, after a short nap. She can work and I can buy some souvenirs. Oh no, she replies, tapping the car seat definitively. You will stay at the hotel. I will go out and work. You will stay in bed.

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