The Village By the Sea (2016)
“When it was time for her to go to bed, she felt it was her last chance. He would be leaving for the hospital early the next morning after Uncle Crispin came to take her to Long Island, to Peconic Bay, where she was to stay with him and his wife, her Aunt Bea, for two weeks.
Her father was resting in an armchair, a blanket across his knees and an old wool scarf of her mother’s around his shoulders, even though it was the middle of June and so warm that Emma herself was wearing a thin cotton T-shirt.
She stood close but not so close she was crowding him. He couldn’t bear that now, she knew, someone leaning over him or pressing against a chair he was sitting in, even if it was her mother.
“Are you afraid?” she asked.
He touched her wrist briefly, then his hand fell back to his lap.
“I imagine there’s a timid animal inside me,” he said. “When it’s afraid, I feel it tremble. It can’t hear. It only knows the fear it feels. It doesn’t have memory or an idea of the future.
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