This is a strange, dreamy, almost hypnotic story that traces a few hours in the middle of the night. A woman receives a phone call at three a.m., informing her that her mother has died. She calls a cab and asks the driver to get her lost in the city. Yet every street he takes her to is full of memories.
Like the cab ride itself, at every turn this story offers something unexpected, and it’s uncompromising in its refusal to meet reader expectations. It’s also full of life and love, and the strange unreality of fresh grief, when we know something has happened but can’t yet feel it to be true.
Published in Lost in the City, Amistad Press; 20th anniversary edition, 2012
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