more krik krak story notes

Night Women

• A prostitute works to support her son due to there being no real “man” in the family
• It reads in a sort of dreamlike/mystical way
• She’s simply doing it to support her son probably because being a pieceworker isn’t as profitable
• She works really hard to make sure her son doesnt find out about her work
• She’s awake at day to tempt people and awake at night to do business and i wonder if she actually sleeps
• She has pretty steady work (two constant cliente who prefer her over their wives i guess)

Seeing things simply

• Princesse is a girl who passes by a cockfighting ring every afternoon on her way to pose nude for a french artist
• An old man at the ring drinks a lot and tries to do magic that never works
• Princesse is very shy about being the subject and supposes that if nobody sees the paintings then it’s okay
• Catherine paints her more and they talk about art and she mentions how her teacher died
• Then catherine disappears, but princesse goes to her villa every day and starts getting a desire to want to draw and paint
• When catherine returns she wears her dead mentor’s shoes and gives princesse one of her paintings she modelled for
• She passes the old drunk who tells her he’s happy he gets to see her twice while he fails more magic that was supposed to get his wife to be silent and stop trying to take him home
• Im not sure what the significance of the cockfights are

New York Day Women

• Suzette is the grown woman of a haitian immigrant
• She is walking around manhattan only to find her mother and she decides to follow her while remembering the things her mother says about haiti
• Most of her mother’s “narrations” are about the difference between haiti and america
• Suzette is shocked at her mother staring at dresses that she shouldnt buy (because it would go straight to goodwill) and her mother buying a hot dog (because salt > 100 bags of shame)
• Then she watches her mother babysit a small child for a woman, she gives him a can of soda she bought, and then watches him read a comic book until his mom comes back
• Then suzette has to return to her office, but not before seeing her mother with other ethnic nannies
• On her way back, she realizes her mother never went to any PTA meetings for her because she was already very smart, and she didnt want to “make you ashamed of this day woman.” before concluding shame > 100 bags of salt.