The Bird Artist (2011)
“Immediately we were put under house arrest. We could not leave our house, except under Mitchell Kelb’s supervision. Romeo brought us groceries. On our fourth day back, sunny, cold, Kelb took my mother out rowing in the harbor. My mother had simply said, “Mr. Kelb, I’m cooped up here. Would you take me rowing,” and Kelb had obliged her without a fuss. Except that he did handcuff her to the thwart she sat on. When they returned, my mother said, “It was a perfectly nice morning. Mr. Kelb preferred... not to talk, so he was especially good company. He’s a bachelor. I think I’ll knit him a sweater. I assured him I wouldn’t leap into the sea. He said the handcuffs assured him more.”
At night my mother kept to her bedroom. I kept to mine. Margaret slept on the sofa and Kelb would lay out a rucksack on the kitchen floor. We would sit together at meals. “This arrangement is hell on earth,” Margaret said one evening. No one disagreed.
On our seventh night under house arrest, Romeo brought us a pot of cod stew, two loaves of bread, and a pan full of cod tongues.MoreLess
At night my mother kept to her bedroom. I kept to mine. Margaret slept on the sofa and Kelb would lay out a rucksack on the kitchen floor. We would sit together at meals. “This arrangement is hell on earth,” Margaret said one evening. No one disagreed.
On our seventh night under house arrest, Romeo brought us a pot of cod stew, two loaves of bread, and a pan full of cod tongues.MoreLess
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