“He had been brought up in the Armenian Christian Church—which he described to people as “like the Greek Orthodox, but not really,” because it was too complicated to go into the history of millennial Church politics and heresies that might not have been heresies depending on whose side you were on, and he didn’t know it all anyway—but once he had become an adult he had given it up. While he had been married to Elizabeth, he had done all the obligatory things. Weddings and funerals, christenings ...with the infant in antique lace and the godmother in tears: Elizabeth had determined which of those they were obliged to go to, what present they were obliged to bring, and what did or did not constitute an acceptable excuse on Gregor’s part. According to Elizabeth’s system, Gregor had been forgivably absent from his niece Hedya’s christening because he was on kidnapping detail in Los Angeles. His niece Hedya had been christened in Boston, where Elizabeth’s older sister lived with her husband, and Gregor couldn’t be two places at once.MoreLessRead More Read Less
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