But Cora doesn’t feel important, she feels like she’s trapped in the rotting corpse of a foreclosed house, and she never wanted to be important anyway. She just wanted to be Delilah. A secret part of Cora likes the end of the world because it makes her strangeness feel quieter. The CDC says to wash your hands, so Cora is just being a Good American by washing her hands twice. If she empties her purse into a UV light box to sterilize everything inside, if she has three air purifiers for her tiny apartment, if she wears gloves on the subway—all of it is reasonable now.
