Celina’s Reviews > Enter Ghost > Status Update

I hadn’t meant to reproach her. Maybe on some level I thought that such a fissure of straight-talking had now opened between us that it could displace years and years of complicated sediment, much of which existed out of sight, out of consciousness, just like that, in a word, an accusation disguised as a statement of fact: sister, this is how you made me feel.

“A tent across the square housed a group of men sitting with placards, protesting in support of a hunger strike. Above them, Palestine flag bunting hung between the buildings, and the lamp posts were covered with stickers advertising the boycott movement.” 1/2

“I selected a few fat American paperbacks from the nineties and hauled them around with me. Submitting to their world was not easy. Maybe it was the subject matter. Sexual misdemeanors of middle-aged Jewish men living in Manhattan. The escapades of literary boys in Latin America.”

Got to return this to the library. I’ll get back to it.