The shop at The Chase is a small, narrow room in a village too small to have regularly scheduled bus service. The store had been closed for some time. Mr. Biswas invests much of the money he had saved in his sign painting days to stock the store and for household goods like pots and pans. Shama regularly douses the old bedstead with kerosene to keep the bedbugs at bay. For years afterwards, Mr. Biswas breathes in the sharp odor of bedbugs and kerosene.
At first, Shama resents the move, telling him tearfully, "You wanted this. You wanted to paddle your own canoe. In all my life I never was so shamed as today. People standing up and laughing. This is what you want to paddle your own canoe with.".....
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