“And so,” she says, “here I am.” “Here you are.” She takes a drink of her Irish coffee. “In a certain time and place.” “Yes. Interviewing for a job in Mississippi because it’s as close as I could get to my boyfriend in Florida.” “It’s like a country song,” Rowan says. “Movin’ to Starkville for the man what cheated on ya.” Anna thinks again about the imprecision of words—had Bashir cheated? He would argue that he acted within the basic parameters of their agreement. Any missteps, he’d say, were missteps of volume, not substance.
