Breaking and Entering Gillmor Don
Breaking and Entering Gillmor Don At 49, Beatrice Billings is rudderless. She has a complicated relationship with her older sister Ariel, with whom she carries on ongoing arguments in her head. Her…
Specifikacia Breaking and Entering Gillmor Don
Breaking and Entering Gillmor Don
At 49, Beatrice Billings is rudderless. She has a complicated relationship with her older sister Ariel, with whom she carries on ongoing arguments in her head. Her marriage is stale, her relationship with her son Thomas is limited to text messages--hostile haikus that he sends from university--and she is the primary caregiver for her mother, who is in the early stages of dementia.
Now she is reflecting on her life, worried about her inability to memorize a simple yoga sequence, and about the fact that she enjoys the idea of many things more than the actual things themselves (teaching, reading, sex). Bea laments the loss of momentum she remembers feeling in her thirties, when she and everyone she knew was busy buying houses, having children, and renovating kitchens. When Bea finds that she has both a talent and a passion for picking locks, the sense of anticipation that had been