Steeplechase

I search for the last incoming call. I store the number under one word, ‘sister’. I know I should have used her name but it is all I can think of. Sister. My sister just called me and I spoke to her. I imagine the words as if they were written in a book: Twenty-three years later my sister called. BEC REICH is recovering from surgery when Emily calls, so naturally she thinks she is hallucinating. Emily, famous worldwide for her paintings, and also for her schizophrenia, lives in Beijing. But that’s not why she hasn’t spoken to Bec for so many years. Now she wants Bec to come to and see her.Which would mean revisiting the sinister games and shared delusions of their strange, the terrible damage of their locked-in childhood. For Bec, fascinated and repelled by her impossible sister, it may be worth the risk.Maybe.by her impossinbe sister‘Kneen has a rare gift for constructing the most exquisite architectures of narrative and meaning from simple and elegant prose.’ John Birmingham