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Boa
About this book
'I told the guy sometimes your arm around my neck felt like…a feather boa…and sometimes it felt like a big ol'snake. Squeezing the life outta me.' One transatlantic marriage. Three continents. Two wars. Boa is an acerbic, warm and honest account of a husband andwife whose relationship spans thirty years of love, laughter, addiction, and warfare. A reading of Boa premiered at the Hightide Festival 2014.
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| LOUIS: | How you doin’, Belinda? |
| BOA: | What are you doing back here? |
| LOUIS: | I’m checking up on you. |
| BOA: | You never called me that. |
| LOUIS: | I did. Whenever you called me a Smug/ |
| LOUIS AND BOA: | Yankee Bastard. |
| BOA: | Why now? Louis? |
| LOUIS shrugs. | |
| LOUIS: | You know, once, at a work party someone asked me about your nickname. I said: ‘I know! God knows how they got from Belinda to that diminutive!’ |
| BOA: | You know my brother couldn’t say it/ |
| LOUIS: | I told the guy sometimes your arm around my neck felt like…a feather boa…and sometimes it felt like a big ol’ snake. Squeezing the life outta me. God, you look good. |
| BOA: | As do you. |
| LOUIS: | I’ve loved you since the moment I saw you. |
| BOA: | So you always said. |
| LOUIS: | Drinking alone? |
| BOA: | No: special occasion. Join me! |
| LOUIS: | I’m teetotal these days. |
| BOA: | Bully for you. |
| LOUIS: | Boa. |
| BOA: | No. |
| LOUIS: | I hear you gotta show out there? |
| BOA: | You’ll hate it. |
| LOUIS: | Try me. |
| BOA: | It’s inspired by the traditional cueca duet that the wives of the disappeared in Chile have danced solo, as a form of protest and lamentation. |
| LOUIS: | It sounds beautiful, I can’t wait to see it! |
| BOA: | Bastard. |
| LOUIS: | No, I love that political dance is still a thing! |
| BOA: | As ever Louis, you are unable to comprehend the deep, internal wisdom that bodies contain. |
| LOUIS: | Well quick let’s go out there and watch them leaping about! In a show inspired by a totalitarian regime, or genocide! And then we’ll go home and forget all about it! |
| BOA: | I know I’m privileged to be talking about human rights in the abstract! Lucky me! Spending my days pondering distant wars, pondering those children dying eleven hours from me, and then…oh! Then I cut into an avocado and the avocado is bad it’s rotten inside and I think…‘oh my god there is nothing worse in this whole world than waiting for an avocado to ripen and then cutting into it and finding it’s bad!’ |
| LOUIS: | Boa. I’ve got something to tell you. |
| BOA: | I can’t stand it |
| LOUIS: | Your own privilege? |
| BOA: | Oh fuck off. No your – piss-taking. |
| He’s sorry. | |
| BOA: | Have I got red wine lips? |
| LOUIS: | Little bit. |
| BOA: | You think when you were a reporter you didn’t write fiction? |
| LOUIS: | Ahh – yep – here we go! |
| BOA: | They call articles stories for a reason – you have to add human details, description. |
| LOUIS: | The detail is all too human. |
| BOA: | But non-fiction still has a narrative. If it didn’t, the history books would just be a numerical timeline with no story at all! |
| LOUIS: | Ooh, very good, thought that one through! |
| BOA: | I have missed wanting to kill you! |
| LOUIS: | ...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Halftitle
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Dedication
- Characters
- Seen 1
- By The same author