A MONTH LATER
MIKA
“Are you okay?” Mom asks, and I quickly respond that I'm fine. I only drop my blanket, which I pick up and pull over my legs while sitting comfortably again.
I finally made it to Eger, and it’s been three weeks now since I arrived. This is where my mother was born and grew up, and where her love for food that she passed down to me comes from. This town is famous for its food and wine, as well as its thermal baths and medieval castle.
My grandparents ran a small restaurant here many years ago before the family relocated to Naples, where my mother met my father, and later moved to San Francisco after my grandparents died.
Mom and I are talking about my father. He had surgery four weeks ago, which I saw through before I moved, and it went well. Now Mom tells me the h
