"She’s not dead," his father said. "Dead women don’t read their E-mail." He sighed. "She’s still shacked up with that big dumb bastard of a mathematician! He’s taken her off somewhere in New Mexico now. A failed academic, for Christ’s sake. A crazy man. She’s thrown it all over, she’s let him smash her whole career. God only can help her, Alejandro. Because God knows I can’t."