The Pendulum by Julie Lindahl

Author:Julie Lindahl [Lindahl, Julie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: 2018-08-11T16:00:00+00:00

As we drove home in the dark, Robert stepped hard on the accelerator. It was close to midnight and we had missed Olga’s carefully prepared dinner.

Matysiak’s final comments for the evening wouldn’t blend into the mass of impressions for the day. “We remember his wife well,” he had said, referring to Oma. “She wore the NSV pin daily and was proud of it.”

Images of Oma passed before me like pieces of a torn canvas. To the young Januszewski she had been the angel who had called the apothecary and adored her garden. There was the image of the stalwart NSV leader, working for “maternal health” in her area. There was the pregnant woman surrounded by her children, frightened on a freezing night in a hay-laden carriage uncertain of survival. There was the desperate wife who wrote letters to restore her husband’s reputation and the chance to make a living for their family of seven. And there were the delicate hands with the antique ring that stroked mine with the gentleness of a good grandmother. As I looked through the windshield I saw the rawness in Tomek’s eyes as we had walked along the Prosna. The rain fell past the headlights, like the many lost children.

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