Room_ A Novel - Emma Donoghue
My child
Such trouble I have.
And you sleep, your heart is placid;
you dream in the joyless wood;
in the night nailed in bronze,
in the blue dark you lie still and shine.
Simonides (c. 556–468 BCE),
“Danaë” (tr. Richmond Lattimore)
Contents
PRESENTS
UNLYING
DYING
AFTER
LIVING
Presents
Today I’m five. I was four last night going to sleep in Wardrobe, but when I wake up in Bed in the dark I’m changed to five, abracadabra. Before that I was three, then two, then one, th ...