I have the call records; I called two thousand and nine times in those seven years.

And I called the house.

Not Daniela’s mobile.

The house line, at about half past seven, which is what I had done since 2011, and which meant that for seven years I conducted my information-gathering about my own family through a single source who answered the telephone.

Part Thirty-Six: Busy Studying

In the two weeks I was in Albuquerque I telephoned the house eleven times.

I spoke to Daniela twice.