Chapter 12 · free to read
She died at four in the morning on a Tuesday, of the thing that was going to kill her anyway, eleven days after two visitors sat in her front room without touching anything.
The rites were at eleven. At eleven I was three pages into the fourth month, and the fourth month is where my husband's name begins to appear.
He signed it. Ten days before they burned him, Ashok Deshmukh signed the entry he had spent a year refusing.
I did not go to her rites. I stayed and read a page that told me my husband had signed. I have not yet decided which of those two things I will be unable to put down.
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