The country was a dreamland; and perhaps it even reminded my wife's grandfather of the night he woke up drunk in his friend's house, beside his friend's wife, everything similar but new, different, better. The United States of America was like an eternity of those first disorientating seconds of not knowing and not wanting to.
All Shall Be Well; And All Shall Be Well; And All Manner of Things Shall Be Well: A Novel (ed. Vintage, 2008) - ISBN: 9780307377173