自从母亲去世以后,霍利再没有回来过沙漠。那是四年前,医院一直通过媒体找他,而他当时已经乘大巴,一路颠簸从夏延赶往菲尼克斯。在停尸房,他们让他确认母亲的尸体。比之外面炎热的天气,这里阴冷、潮湿,充满化学药品和漂白粉的气味。站在荧光灯下,他看着他们从墙上的抽屉里把母亲的尸体摇出来。她死去有两周多了,面颊上的肌肉已经凹陷下去,大部分牙齿也掉了,但是方正的下巴依旧未改,手指还那么绵软细 Since the mother’s death, Holly never returned to the desert. It was four years ago that the hospital had been looking for him through the media, and he had already taken the bus and bumping all the way from Shayen to Phoenix. At the morgue, they asked him to confirm the mother’s body. It is colder, wetter, smelling of chemicals and bleach than hot weather outside. Standing under fluorescent lights, he watched them shake their mother’s body out of the drawer on the wall. She died more than two weeks, cheeks muscles have sunken, most of the teeth are lost, but Founder’s chin has not changed, so soft and thin fingers