World Of Suzie Wong : A Novel (9781101572399) (2012) - Plot & Excerpts
She was standing out on the pavement, as if she did not notice the steady pelting rain, and her hair was plastered flat on her head and down the sides of her face, and hung on her shoulders in lank dripping rats’ tails. The shiny drenched silk of her cheongsam clung to her body and round her legs, with the split skirt dragged open and nicked up round her thigh. Her white high-heeled shoes were sodden and spattered with mud. She looked as if she had just been fished out of a pond. I ran up the center of the street toward her, my feet splashing and my wet shirt steaming with the warmth of my body from running. She had not told me anything on the telephone except that her baby was dead, and I still did not know what had happened. She did not move as I came up but stood there with her round little face expressionless and perfectly white. “Suzie,” I said. “My poor Suzie.” Her arms hung emptily at her sides. The rain trickled down her white face and dripped from her chin.
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