GREAT READS → CALLIGRAPHY Issue 781 · October 10, 2019

Sound Check

These women don’t even know her, but they want to know about her deepest struggles

Sound Check

She scans the message again, feels clammy.

Family angle. Is it all just a spin to him?

 

She waits at the corner for Bertha, looking down at her faded blue sneakers as the traffic passes her by. She stomps in place. The sneakers are still good to go. So is she. What does she want?

She wants to tell Yosef about the interview. She wants to confront Sruli. She wants to know about his life. But seems it’s too much to ask.

Her PR campaign is as good as over. YoMan will stop pushing the family angle. She could really keep it up; it’s so easy to push the buttons of a star, maybe because he’s more vulnerable, dependent on the masses to keep him in the sky. But instead she comments with the rest on an upcoming concert with chazzanim that he neglected to tell her about, and Sruli responds, posting from Chile. What? Isn’t that a volatile place?

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