Every touch, gesture, and action used to be intimate between them. That was in the early times, eight years ago, when the marriage was new—not the “eventual extended grimness” their marriage became. As Lianne sorts the mail, she discovers a postcard casually scrawled by a friend visiting Rome. The picture catches her attention. It is a photo of Shelley’s twelve-canto poem called Revolt of Islam. It is a beautiful design, but that is not why it captures her attention. Though it had been mailed weeks before, she is struck by the coincidence of that title arriving on this week, a mere three days after the planes had struck.
Lianne tells her mother she is glad her son was with his grandmother when his father arrived at their door, covered with ash and soot, gray and bloody and unexpected. It would have been awful for Justin to see his father like that, Lianne tells her mother as they sit in Nina’s comfortable apartment just off of Fifth Avenue. She explains that she did not know what to do. The phones were out, so they went to the hospital. Nina Bartos, a retired university professor, asks why he came to her apartment, why he did not go to a friend’s house—or straight to the hospital himself. Lianne says she does not know but that Keith is fine. He simply needs some rest and some time.
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