The new issue of Evergreen Review features “To Grandmother’s House,” a story from Rebecca Brown’s Not Heaven, Somewhere Else (TS 2018).
Here’s a little excerpt:
“To Grandmother’s house,” your mother said. You tried to be good but were not prepared for this or for your Mother’s loss, for no longer being a child. For learning how much of being alive is losing.
Did you ever really think that you could find the way yourself? That anything you carried would sustain you? Is that why Mother sent you when she did? Because she knew how long it takes and hoped your leaving when you did would spare you seeing what awaited to her?
Take this she said: Your body. Your heart. Your body, your heart, your life. Go with your faults. Yes, take your faults, your wanting to die, your falling and hiding and getting lost, your longing and wanting and wounding, your wanting heart.
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The new issue of Evergreen Review features “To Grandmother’s House,” a story from Rebecca Brown’s Not Heaven, Somewhere Else (TS 2018).
Here’s a little excerpt:
“To Grandmother’s house,” your mother said. You tried to be good but were not prepared for this or for your Mother’s loss, for no longer being a child. For learning how much of being alive is losing.
Did you ever really think that you could find the way yourself? That anything you carried would sustain you? Is that why Mother sent you when she did? Because she knew how long it takes and hoped your leaving when you did would spare you seeing what awaited to her?
Take this she said: Your body. Your heart. Your body, your heart, your life. Go with your faults. Yes, take your faults, your wanting to die, your falling and hiding and getting lost, your longing and wanting and wounding, your wanting heart.