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Audrey Niffenegger, Her Fearful Symmetry

Durch ihre Präsentation von "The View from the cheap Seats" von Neil Gaiman in der Union Chapel, London, wurde ich wieder auf sie aufmerksam und gönnte mir ein paar weitere Bücher von ihr, die längst überfällig waren. Bei diesem bin ich zwar erst bei 30%, aber jetzt schon restlos fasziniert, vor allem von dem Zwangsneurotiker Martin und Elspeths Erfahrungen als Geist.
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Elspeth Noblin had been dead for almost a year now, and she was still figuring out the rules.
At first she had simply drifted around her flat. She had little energy and spent a great deal of time staring at her former possessions. She would doze off and reawaken hours, perhaps days later - she couldn't tell, it didn't matter. She was shapeless, and spent whole afternoons rolling around on the floor from one patch of sunlight to another, letting it heat every part of her as though she were air, so that she rose and fell, warmed and cooled.
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She had always been lax when it came to religion. She had been C of E in the same way everybody else was: she supposed she believed in God, but it seemed rather uncool to make a fuss about Him. She had seldom been in church unless someone was dead or being wed; in retrospect she felt even more remiss because St Michael's was practically next door. I wish I could remember my funeral. It must have happened while she was rolling around the floor of the flat in an amorphous mist. Elspeth wondered if she should have been more assidous about God. She wondered if she was going to be stuck in her flat for all eternity. She wondered if someone who was already dead could kill herself.

(Audrey Niffenegger, Her Fearful Symmetry, 2009)
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