Cristina Henríquez Reads “Everything is Far From Here”
The New Yorker: The Writer's Voice - New Fiction from The New Yorker - A podcast by WNYC Studios and The New Yorker - Sundays
Categories:
What if she’s forgotten what he looks like? What if she’s gone crazy? What if he’s here, lying in one of those cribs, and she sees him every single day without realizing he’s her son? What if it’s been too long? What if memory fails? What if everything fails, and getting through life is simply learning to cope with the failure? No, she scolds herself. Don’t think like that. Don’t let yourself give way.
