“One morning when Jiayu opened her eyes she said to the ceiling, Grief, I don’t know who you are, so don’t pretend you know who I am.”
What about the Christmas tree? What about the four stockings Jiayu had embroidered with their names? What about going to Mrs. Erickson’s house on Christmas Eve? Mrs. Erickson’s granddaughter and Evan had been born a day apart, and had, for different reasons, stayed in thein adjacent rooms. After that, Mrs. Erickson had turned Evan into another grandchild of hers, and for fifteen Christmases they had joined Mrs.
It occurred to Jiayu that someday Evan might appear on another person’s list. The thought neither consoled nor disturbed her. On the spreadsheet there was Hua, a high-school classmate who had committed suicide the year before they graduated. There was the father of Jiayu’s preschool friend, who had killed himself two years ago, one evening after he finished rehearsing with the retirees’ choir. Jiayu had never once spoken to Hua in high school.
Her grandfather’s life alone would make a good memory lane, Jiayu thought. His stay had usually overlapped with her summer holiday, and she had been his companion on his morning jogs, evening strolls, and many outings to the palaces and the parks of Beijing. Jiayu heard everything. A more sensitive child might have worried herself sleepless or watched her grandfather’s every movement with anxiety. But nothing about him had indicated ill health. After a day or two, it was hard not to believe that he was going to live forever.
It was on one of their evening walks that Jiayu and her grandfather had met the woman and her two daughters, the older one Jiayu’s age, the younger one still in a bamboo stroller. That there had been two girls Jiayu was certain. And that there had been a bamboo stroller. She and the other girl took turns pushing it around while Jiayu’s grandfather and the girls’ mother sat on a bench nearby. Jiayu had turned five earlier that spring, and she carried the transistor radio with her everywhere.
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