MARRIED TO MY ENEMY’S SON
The city approached through the windscreen in its January guise lower light, starker colours, the particular stripped-back quality of New York in the first week of a new year before it had fully decided what it was going to be.
“What do you want this year to look like?” I asked.
He considered it the way he considered everything. “More of what we built last year,” he said. “The Fund running at full capacity. The European expansion settled. The public address behind us. More dinners at your mother’s on Sundays.” He paused. “The book, when you’re ready.”
“The book,” I said. Not dismissively. Just acknowledging it the thing that was there, waiting, accumulating itself in the pages of a notebook