The Sea Grass Icons
an excerpt from the novel “The Temporary Widow’s Guide to Love, Berlin, and Islands in the Aegean” published in The Southern Review, Spring 2012
MAROULA WAS the only virgin Dimitri knew who would go with him to the cove in the early morning and crawl out onto the rocks below the whitewashed chapel while he observed from his station on the beach. She was his daughter and well past forty. Though he loved her as a father should, he would be the first to admit she wasn’t much to look at. She had the bold Levantine nose of his mother, but her eyes receded behind it like two brown mice headed for the same massive piece of furniture from opposite sides of the room. He had studied them and had struggled with the question of how to render them. Maroula was so uninspiring that at times he wondered why he bothered with a model at all. The Virgin of the Last Resort. At least he could be relatively sure she was the real thing. But the older he got, the further the icons he painted strayed from idealized forms to—well, Maroulas . . . . Read more
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