Nodding down into a nap beneath the canopy of her memories, she jerked awake and saw the form again in the early mist of the second morning and the third day — a rock, a whale, some white place to cling to, sleep, and breathe. And in her state of waking, she jerked awake. And from that waking, she woke up.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
DENIS JOHNSON was born in 1949 in Munich. His first novel, Angels, was awarded the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction in 1984 by the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. His volumes of poetry include The Man Among the Seals, Inner Weather and The Incognito Lounge. He lives in Wellfleet, Massachusetts.