This Is Your Life, Harriet Chance! - Plot & Excerpts
August 20, 2015 (HARRIET AT SEVENTY-EIGHT) Harriet is awakened rudely at 9:40 a.m. by the shrill crackle of the public address speaker heralding the Zuiderdam’s imminent arrival in the port of Juneau. Mired in a state of throbbing paralysis, Harriet is surprised to find herself sprawled atop the covers, still wearing her blue China dress, her lips chapped, her hair a mess, and one of her earrings missing. She remembers quite clearly everything up to the pleasant young bartender—the headiness of the wine, the hum of the party, the warmth of Powder Blue’s piano. Beyond that, her recollections are so spotty, so scattered and diffuse, as to possess a dreamlike obscurity. Systematically, Harriet begins collecting these fragments of memory like shards of glass, trying to piece the previous night back together. There was some awkwardness with a young Asian woman, some trouble with crab legs. Broken glass. Some shouting. Dear God, was she rolling on the carpet at some point? There was some sort of scene, with onlookers.
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