the last book I ever read (The Visiting Privilege: New and Collected Stories by Joy Williams, excerpt four)

from The Visiting Privilege: New and Collected Stories by Joy Williams:

In New England, Joan discovered that if she slept while it was light she didn’t dream, so she slept in the afternoons and stayed up all night, putting together immense puzzles of Long Island Sound. She lived in terror, actually, but it was rootless, because the worst had already happened. She referred to the days behind her as “those so-called days.”