Breaking Water Read Online Free PDF Page B

entirely new kind of life.
    I think about simply losing my parents forever, once the only choice. Then I think of them undead. And I think of Guru Yama’s wife, grotesque and alien, death itself personified as a gigantic, corpulent infant, crooning to itself and eating a single marigold as I struggled to understand whether its painfully corrupted form caused it pain. I think of it screaming in an oven.
    I see myself, pen hovering over the forms, not knowing which box to check.
    Who am I to deny someone I love a second life, however incomprehensible, however different from the first? And then, with both relief and panic, I realize it’s not even my choice, but my parents’. One day, I’ll have to have a conversation with them about whether or not they want to risk becoming a fucking zombie. I haven’t asked yet.
    And one day, when I have a child—if I have a child—I’ll have to have that conversation again, when they ask me.
    When these thoughts creep into those evening conversations with my parents, tinting them with dread, I think of two corpses shambling up a snow-clad mountain in Switzerland, their flesh preserved in a fur of frost that glitters under a high, clear sun, their thoughts unfathomable.

 
    Thank you for buying this
    Tom Doherty Associates ebook.
    Â 
    To receive special offers, bonus content,
    and info on new releases and other great reads,
    sign up for our newsletters.
    Â 

    Or visit us online at
    us.macmillan.com/newslettersignup
    Â 
    For email updates on the author, click here .

 
    Â 

    Copyright © 2016 by Indrapramit Das
    Art copyright © 2016 by Keren Katz