The Two Deaths of Senora Puccini (2015)
“For many years I had put it about that my wife was dead, that I was a childless widower. How embarrassing to think I hadn’t been believed. Yet in a way I wasn’t lying. Of course I’ve known all along that my wife wasn’t killed in a skiing accident, but in her betrayal and desertion it was as if she had died. And so I had come to tell the world she was dead. In fact, I had been talking about her death for so long that she actually seemed not among the living. Consequently, when Pacheco confronted... me with my fabrication, my immediate response was to think him the liar. Then there was a moment of true surprise which, even now, looking back, I’m certain I’m not inventing. Seconds afterward I caught hold of myself and realized the sort of deception I had been living and I felt ashamed. Yet I also hated Pacheco for exposing me. Both Malgiolio and Dalakis looked at me with surprise and embarrassment, while Malgiolio even wore a little smile as if to indicate I was no better than he was, even though I hadn’t judged him or thought him worse than anyone else.MoreLess
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