Blue, of course, and except for Glenn, who is looking at the framed clipping of Grace next to his mother’s bed—there is a plane flying over. In that plane we find our Rus, his face pressed against the window as you would expect from him. You can probably picture him by now, can’t you, how he presses his face against the window and eagerly reaches for the peanuts the flight attendant is handing out. He has never been out of the city, and now he is flying out of the country, with only a twenty and the coins that we gave to him when we passed by him at the debit machine. The sky around the plane is getting dark, and Rus sees only his face in the window now. When he closes his eyes he sees his daddy, standing on the docks in Russia, spreading his arms for him, and he sees Francisco, drinking vodka in the belly of a large Russian submarine. The fact that he is emigrating has not really dawned on him yet. Sometimes big steps are made easily, especially when they go downhill. Rus squeezes the armrests as the front of the plane starts pointing down and he leans forward in his seat.
What do You think about Rus Like Everyone Else (2015)?
