Divisadero - Opening

By our grandfather's cabin, on the high ridge, opposite a slope of buckeye trees, Claire sits on her horse, wrapped in a thick blanket. She has camped all night and lit a fire in the hearth of that small structure our ancestor built more than a generation ago, and which he lived in like a hermit or some creature, when he first came to this country.

First published in Great Britain 2007
Copyright 2007 by Michael Ondaatje

The moral right of the author has been asserted

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For John and Beverly

and in loving memory of Creon Corea

--remembered by us as 'Egilly'