Gogol In Rome

Apartment 75 The obese woman who used to wake up our whole house by starting her Subaru at 6 a.m. has committed suicide. Snow hangs like a set of unlaundered sheets in the windows. When I walked into her seventh floor studio, the standard lamp was still on, but could only light itself, refusing to interfere with the dull dusk of the interior the police had already searched. For the first time, I felt an urge to look at her face and perhaps to see something more distinctly than the triviality of neighborhood permits and the mystery of suicide allows, but her features were shut down without offense. I only remember a chair missing its rear legs, shoved up against the wall for balance.Kapovich, Katia is the author of 'Gogol In Rome', published 2004 under ISBN 9781844710461 and ISBN 1844710467.