#821 Esmeralda- Mia Alvar
Esmeralda is a domestic worker from the Philippines. She has several jobs, one of which is working in one of the top floors of the World Trade Center’s north tower. On the day the towers were brought down, she does everything she can to get down there to look for her lover. She knows he’s there, but cannot get close enough. It is a prayer.
“You pray by heart the way you plow a field of soil, the way you push a mop across a floor. One foot before the other.”
On one hand this is a story about two people comforting each other at times of great need. Love born of despair doesn’t last, but when one dies in the middle of it, at the peak of the love story, that’s where it stays.
Notable Passage: “I like novels that are long enough to age you while you read them.”
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