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• W4252615901 abstract "This Road Bonnie Nadzam (bio) A man in the zócalo in broad daylight slips his paint-stained hand into the back of her pants and presses his mouth to her ear and cursing her in English. Lace grips the steering wheel hard at the memory of it, turns her attention to the windshield where hovers that legless, one-armed woman—spider-thin and black from the sun—jerking back and forth in her scrap wood cart like a hologram, holding a short handled stick broom with her thumb so with her knuckles she can push herself along the floor of the mercado as she sweeps. Lace just stands there dumb in the crowd, a plastic bag of cheap silver and cotton shirts in her hand when again comes the man sneaking up behind her and his huge dry hand slips into her pants and God. Damn it. She never needs to see this misshapen woman or this dirty man and his hands, God, his hand, not any of these people ever again if she could just. Get this. Out of her head. She turns to Dom, who sits eating sunflower seeds in passenger seat beside her, and groans at him. Are we there yet? Is there something to eat? Can you find a radio station or tell me a joke or tell me a story or something? Please? Dom pulls his bare feet and ankles out of the bright hot day and back into the truck. Just enjoy the drive, Lace. He picks up her hand and squeezes it. It's way too early for that kind of talk. He squints ahead at the daylight as if he could see Nebraska. We've got days. The road they're on now is the last stretch out of Mexico, from Sonoyta to Why. Elbow on the window, Lace speeds past the stray dogs and the blank-faced peeling billboards and the greasy smoking trash piles. Not looking at any of it, not wanting to see anymore of it. The road is bumpy. The steering wheel shakes, vibrates hard in her hands, hurts the bones in her hands. In three miles, four, the asphalt will be smooth and dark and the painted yellow line printed down the middle. Just three more miles, or four. Then Arizona, Colorado, Nebraska. Cold clean flat easy average Lincoln Nebraska and a classroom full of kids in bright t-shirts and smearing their primers with paste and paint and chocolate milk and spring coming outside the window, cold wind and bright sun and none of this. She turns down the radio—the accordion music and the shrill words and the guitars and the shrieking stringed instruments. Enough, already. We should've gone somewhere else. Florida. Come on, Lace. This is vacation. Something feels bad. I know it does, he says. It always does. He turns to the window. After a minute, he turns back to face her. I'm sorry. Lace. I'm sorry. Hey. How about a beer? There's two left. Let's toast the last stretch. It's a good idea. She can enjoy these last few miles, make it a pleasant scene, at least for Dom, he deserves that much, she can try. Dom unzips the cooler and opens one warm [End Page 730] beer and gives it to Lace, then opens the other for himself and plays his free hand in the air outside the moving car. Lace tips the green bottle to her lips then steadies it between her legs, slowing to a line of unmoving cars. She comes to a stop. What the hell. College, Dom says. A line of fifty, sixty, seventy cars is backed up before them so they can't see the gates and check point a few miles ahead. What they see are all these people ball-capped and pigtailed jumping around, dancing, running barefoot circles around the unmoving cars. One of them in a Boston Red Sox hat is pissing into the dirt before one of the slanted houses on the side of the road. Lace puts the truck in park and puts her face in her hands. Mexico, Christ. Three hundred miles back..." @default.
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