Cells: Memories for My Mother McCrea Gavin
Cells: Memories for My Mother McCrea Gavin 'Are you going into town today?' she says, which annoys me because it's something she says all the time, having forgotten she said it before, and I say,…
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Cells: Memories for My Mother McCrea Gavin
'Are you going into town today?' she says, which annoys me because it's something she says all the time, having forgotten she said it before, and I say, 'Jesus, Mum, not this again, ' and she says, 'What again?' and I say, 'Town is shut down, ' and while she can see I am upset and wants not to upset me like this, she is also wounded by my tone, and I am ashamed then and can only look at my plate, and I decide not to bring up what I intended to bring up, about the past, and about my need for her to apologise for it.Gavin is spending the quarantine in a small flat in south Dublin with his eighty-year-old mother, whose mind is slowly slipping away. But he finds that all he can write about is her.Moving through a sequence of remembered He has lived most of his adult life abroad and has returned home to care for her and to write a novel.