The Ruby Notebook by Laura Resau

Author:Laura Resau [Resau, Laura]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-375-89761-0
Publisher: Random House Children's Books
Published: 2010-09-14T04:00:00+00:00

An otherworldly bliss sweeps over Sirona’s face as she plays the lyre. Her fingers skim the strings, almost of their own accord, while her mind floats away to another place and time. It’s fitting that she’s named after a water goddess. She moves like river currents: pure, effortless grace. In fact, all the members of Salluvii possess this elegance and ease. Damona’s eyes scan the audience as she plays, interested and curious. Her gaze lands on Bormanus, who sends her a hint of a smile. Sirona’s husband, Grannos, is subdued, relaxed, looking upward as he plays, to the tops of buildings, the sky, the birds.

I’m perched on the fountain in the Place de la Mairie, taking notes on Salluvii. When they started playing fifteen minutes earlier, Vincent ushered me out of Madame Chevalier’s apartment, encouraging me to study the musicians up close. “Take notes in that notebook of yours!” he advised. I suspect he simply wanted time alone with Madame Chevalier.

The rain has let up, and weak sunlight is peeking through the clouds. I open my notebook, wanting to write about my father but not sure where to begin. Last summer, I translated letters that Wendell wrote to his birth father when he was younger, years before they’d ever met. Some letters burned with rage, others were light and casual, others full of yearning, and others simply grateful. Wendell said it was his way of making sense of his jumbled emotions in a powerless situation.

I turn to a fresh page and, slowly, write,

Dear J.C.,

I got your packet of letters. At first I wanted to kill you. How dare you come into my life now? How dare you play games with my feelings?

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