The Overstory by Richard Powers

Author:Richard Powers
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, azw3
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

DISGUST BREAKS over her as she drives home. But even disgust feels like freedom. If a person can see the worst in herself . . . If a person can find total honesty, complete knowledge of what she really is . . . Now that she’s sated, she wants purity again. At the light at Snelling, she looks up into the rearview mirror and sees her eyes hiding from her own furtive glance. She thinks: I’ll stop. Get my life back. Decency. This doesn’t have to end in a flaming fireball. The coming concert performance can absorb her excess energy. After that, she’ll find something else to occupy her. To keep her sane and sober.

By Lexington, ten blocks down, she’s planning one more dose. Just one more, to remind her what it feels like to ski this mountain continent. She won’t be pathetic. She’ll have the addiction, without the pitiful resolutions. She doesn’t know what’s addicted: her body or her will. She knows only that she’ll follow herself down, to wherever it takes her. By the time she turns onto their street’s leafy canyon, she’s calm again.

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