The Typhoon Lover by Sujata Massey

Author:Sujata Massey
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: HarperCollins

It turned out that I was the only one to get out at my aunt’s neighborhood station. I walked slowly uphill, trailing my suitcase behind me. A major storm might have swept the region, tearing limbs from trees, but in the Shimura family’s tidy neighborhood, the streets had already been swept clean of organic litter by the housewives. Aunt Norie even had taken advantage of a few particularly graceful pomegranate boughs and arranged them in a large Satsuma urn outside her front door. I studied the tranquil, undeniably practical arrangement as I waited for someone to answer the doorbell. After five minutes, I realized the bell might not be working, so I rapped lightly on the door.

Chika answered promptly. She looked from me to my suitcase, then back again. “What’s this?”

“You’re supposed to welcome me.” I leaned forward to peck her cheek. My cousin smelled like baby powder and looked fresh as ever in a starched white T-shirt and low-waisted Burberry plaid pants.

“But you had a room in a great hotel! Why in the world would you come here? We have no electricity or gas, probably for another day.”

“You’re my relatives and I’d rather be with you, helping in any way that I can,” I said piously, exchanging my rain shoes for a cheery pair of tartan slippers my aunt kept on hand for guests. “Why would I prefer to stay in some impersonal box of a hotel room?”

“A box with room service and privacy,” Chika said. “If you don’t want your hotel room, I do. With the band coming in, I want to be staying nearby, and have, you know, freedom of movement.”

“Freedom?” Aunt Norie, carrying a pail of broken camellia branches, appeared in the entryway, a frown etched between her eyebrows. “What kind of freedom is that, can you explain to your mother?”

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