![]() ![]() There was a view of the river and en-suite facilities. So it was a very reasonable proposition, Geffen argued, that his father should not live alone in Portugal but rather come to upstate New York and spend the rest of his days tottering around the new room on the third floor. Geffen’s mother had passed just over a year ago from colon cancer and it was clear Mimo could no longer take care of himself. ![]() But now his fingers had frozen shut and his left eye had filmed over. Geffen’s father, Mimo, had once been a master stonemason in Porto-his specialty was chiseling gargoyles into various states of fury. But Geffen, in that maddening way of his, left the possibility open for discussion long enough that her ongoing dissent began to feel like a kind of violence. It must be said from the outset that Lila disagreed with the whole idea of Geffen’s father coming to live with them.
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