Days of Decisiveness
"And we held each other in the dark hall and laughed, with the tears running down our cheeks and echoes of our laughter going up the ruined stairway to the sky. 'I am so happy,' Constance said at last, gasping. 'Merricat, I am so happy.' 'I told you that you would like it on the moon.'"
— Shirley Jackson, We Have Always Lived in the Castle
New York, 2008. A woman's marriage has just ended. She is living in a near-stranger's apartment, editing manuscripts, ordering from the wrong Chinese restaurant. Then a phone call arrives about a sister she hasn't spoken to in eleven years.
Told by an unnamed character whose attention moves with precision, Days of Decisiveness (working title) is a novel about the reckoning that comes when you have spent a long time not deciding anything, and the world decides for you.