The Two Hearts of Eliza Bloom by Miller Beth

Author:Miller, Beth [Miller, Beth]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
ISBN: 9781786816825
Publisher: Bookouture
Published: 2019-02-28T16:00:00+00:00

I sent the message and checked my phone again: still nothing from Dov. I hoped he’d been able to keep his phone a secret, because Dad would grind it into the earth with his heel if he found out about it. I left Dov a trembly voicemail asking him to call me, then moped around the flat, not able to settle to anything.

Why was Dad so angry all the time? I couldn’t remember a time when he wasn’t, apart from that day on holiday when we made the sand car with the pretty shells pressed into it. I had no idea. Now I was away from home, I realised I didn’t really know much about him. I didn’t even know what he did all day. He worked some of the time as an accountant for a small chain of shops in Hatton Garden; and some of the time he must be at the kollel, the religious centre for married men. But what else did he do? His parents were both long-dead. I never knew his mother, and only vaguely remembered his father, Levi, a thin man sitting in a chair, his beard white, looking as old as Father Time. Dad’s brothers and sisters were not close to him and we rarely saw them. I remember Alex asking, some time back: what did my dad like doing? Who were his friends? I teased him for thinking he could bond with my dad by learning about him, but now I realised that I hadn’t answered because I didn’t know. It was strange to have this distance from my father, reflect about him as a person, separate from the shouting bullying man who flitted in and out of the house. A disappointed person, perhaps. Someone whose life hadn’t worked out the way they hoped.

I had a secret life. Maybe my father did too.

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