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A man hovers over me as I write. Every table in the Los Angeles café is taken.<br><br>‘Are you leaving?’<br><br>My notebook, coffee and Dictaphone are spread out in front of me.<br><br>‘No,’ I answer.<br><br>‘I’ll give you a thousand dollars to leave.’<br><br>‘OK,’ I say, as I pack up my things.<br><br>‘What?’<br><br>‘Sure. A thousand dollars. I’m leaving.’<br><br>He looks at me like I’m mad and beats a hasty retreat. I meant it. He didn’t mean it. My radar, after all these years of sanity, is still off when it comes to what people do or don’t mean.<br><br>My mum calls my cell phone and I go outside to take it. <br><br>‘How do you pronounce Tóibín,’ my mother asks me, ‘as in Colm Tóibín, the novelist?’ This is our daily call, me in America, her in England, every day since I moved here at twenty-one. I’m thirty-two now, and she’s seventy-one, though she sounds like she’s seventeen.<br><br>‘It’s pronounced toe-bean. Like “toe” and then “bean”.’<br><br>‘That’s what I feared,’ she says. She lets this marinate a moment. Then, ‘No. Not acceptable.’<br><br>‘But that’s his name! That’s how you say it.’<br><br>‘I can’t be going around saying “toe-bean”. It simply will not do.’<br><br>‘Why d

Author

Forrest, Emma

Publisher

Toronto : Vintage Canada

Published

2012

Language

EN

ISBN

9780307359322

Rating

3.75 / 5 (2,850 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14