The Grand Tour: A Novel by Adam O'Fallon Price

Author:Adam O'Fallon Price [Price, Adam O'Fallon]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 2016-08-09T00:00:00+00:00

She sat down on the edge of her bed, wrapped in a towel, and began plucking hairs out of the crown of her head. This, despite telling herself after her last session—as she thought of them—that that was it, no more. But then, she told herself that after every session. She couldn’t remember how or when she’d started doing it—the hair pulling had been a small thing for years, a weird though very occasional habit—but it had gotten worse in the last few months as her money and legal troubles had intensified and was now to the point where she found herself, several times a day, in a glazed stupor with her hand hovering over the top of her head.

The bald spot was the size of a casino chip and almost as perfectly circular. She had allowed herself to see it recently, alone in the beveled fluorescence of a Lord & Taylor dressing room, untying her camouflaging topknot and staring up at it, the cheerful pink of her festering soul. She’d wept. But now, her predatory fingers expertly searched its periphery for the perfect hair to yank. Finding one, she wrapped it three times around her index finger and teased herself with a slight tug, the heavenly feeling of upward pressure on the scalp. She relaxed, then tautened, her grip on the hair many times—as she did, she fell into a delicious whiteout trance; the suffocating anxiety washed gently away from her, and she was like a pier at low tide, temporarily released by the churning sea.

With a pop, she pulled it out.

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