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- Copyright
- Copyright © 2007 Regents of the University of Colorado
- ISSN
- 0013-8282
- eISSN
- 2573-3575
- DOI
- 10.1215/00138282-45.1.1
- Publisher site
- See Article on Publisher Site
Abstract
J O H N - M l C H A E L R IV E R A h a t does i t mean t o follow g h o s ts ? 1 This question began haunting me years ago a t a small pay-by-the-week a p a rtm e n t complex my m other and I lived in when I was twelve. As p a rt-tim e managers, she and I found ourselves collecting th e weekly rent, calling maintenance people, and doing th e o th er mundane duties t h a t kept th e one-room dwellings vacant long enough fo r another person t o fill th e emptiness o f tra n sitio n . These te n ants, i t seemed, were on th e ir way t o somewhere, and th e y had stopped in North Hollywood long enough t o t r y t o grasp where t h a t somewhere would lead them. One o f my m other’s duties, th e one t h a t s till haunts me, was cleaning o u t th e rooms o f people who had skipped o
Journal
English Language Notes – Duke University Press
Published: Mar 1, 2007