6/20/2023 0 Comments Michael redhill bellevue square![]() ![]() She sometimes forgets the faces of people she knows, even when staring at their photographs. While speculating about Ingrid’s whereabouts, Jean makes a casual reference to the “last time” she went mad, shortly after the birth of her twelve-year-old son. Redhill spends the downtime establishing Jean’s bona fides as a harmless middle-class Anglo-Saxon type: she likes systems and categorizing things, listens to Radio Two, and is contemptuous of self-help books, but she is also cloistered enough that she takes a pupusa to be an “albino hamburger.” Yet the boulder-sized breadcrumbs are there from the start. Instead, Jean neglects her work and family to set up camp in the market’s park, Bellevue Square, where she becomes acquainted with a “clearinghouse of humanity”-a polite term for drug addicts, the mentally ill, and sundry eccentrics-all of who claim some kind of Ingrid experience. And yet for eighty pages, that doesn’t happen. If Jean comes to the market, Katerina can arrange for an introduction. ![]() Katerina actually knows Jean’s doppelgänger-her name is Ingrid Fox-and can confirm that, other than having shorter hair, she is her “absolute” twin. The next is Katerina, a Guatemalan woman who works at a pupusa place in Kensington Market. ![]() The first person to bring it up is a shop regular, who suddenly starts screaming and ripping at Jean’s hair, convinced it’s a wig. ![]()
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