By Ben Greenman
from forthcoming collection, as yet untitled
Karolina Mihalic, a young novelist, of whom Charlie Bath appears to have spoken of very highly, not only for the quality of her prose but for her conversational skill, her stylish shoes and undergarments, and her willingness to overlook his faults (penury, primarily, along with a problematic fondness for single-malt whiskeys), makes her first appearance in Green Mountain City at his parents’ house this afternoon, and will be seen later on at dinner, and at breakfast tomorrow, after which the young couple will drive away in Bath’s father’s car for three days in a secluded cabin. “They are staying in separate rooms while they are here,” said Bath’s mother. “I know that may seem silly, and I’m not naive about what’s going on upstate, or for that matter anywhere else, but my house, my rules.” Mihalic’s latest book, The Sorrows of Bartosova, relates the story of a young nurse in a facility for patients suffering from memory loss who begins to fear that her own mind is deteriorating. “In the end,” Bath’s mother added, “it devolves into a phantasmagoria as Ivana struggles to articulate her condition even as she loses her grip on memory and language.”
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