Confidence
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Russell Smith
In the stories of Confidence, there are ecstasy-taking PhD students, financial traders desperate for husbands, owners of failing sex stores, violent and unremovable tenants, aggressive raccoons, seedy massage parlors, experimental filmmakers who record every second of their day, and wives who blog insults directed at their husbands. There are cheating husbands. There are private clubs, crowded restaurants, psychiatric wards. There is one magic cinema and everyone has a secret of some kind. (From Biblioasis)
From the book
Mother's Day hung over the house like an appointment for surgery. It was not marked in the calendar of bright Rothkos that hung next to the fridge, but Ivor had seen the smaller daybook that sat on her desk, the square of May 13 marked almost imperceptibly with a tiny x in the corner. The day he saw it he felt sick, as if the house was bathed in a childhood smell like granny's lamb or his dad's sports liniment, a warning of punishment.
From Confidence by Russell Smith ©2015. Published by Biblioasis.