It’s So Difficult
by Raúl Nieto Guridi (Author) and Lawrence Schimel (Translator)
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Booktalk: A school day can be so overwhelming: so many people, so many noises, so many things to remember. Grown-ups say it’ll get easier with time, but even saying hello is incredibly hard. Thank goodness for comforts like math, for anything that can relax a restless mind. Maybe this time a few words will come out at last. . .
Snippet:
I count things until I reach the sign for the 21 bus stop.
There is a man there who breathes very loudly.
The bus took seventeen breaths to arrive–
I counted.
Counting things or calculating relaxes me.
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