The Diviners (2007)
“Rosa Elisabetta, a leafless sapling in terry cloth robe and slippers, is ahead of the curve, ahead of the men climbing out of their beds. Men, festering, uremic, unshaven. She hasn’t made their acquaintance, doesn’t intend to. They tremble like candle flames at the end of their wicks. A strong breeze would blow them out. Still, near to the feeding hour, they bring forth untapped reservoirs of life, morbid jokes, gallows humor, toothless smiles.“Go listen to the lecture,” the nurse says to her, ...waving in the direction of the common area, with its ample but depressing population of houseplants. “Don’t be hanging around here.”“I already know all that they’re going to say.”“If you knew, you wouldn’t be here.”The nurse’s tone is patently offensive, as are her press-on fingernails. But Rosa is insubstantial, like the others, and when she reaches out for things, when she puts the flat part of her palm on the nurse’s console, the result is complicated. The palm is stretched as though testing plane geometry, swooping down over the console.MoreLess
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