At My Father’s Ceremony They Said I Could Not Do Anything Right Until I Walked In And Smiled

as Evelyn’s audience and loyal recorder of grievances. “She does this when she wants me to feel responsible for upsetting her.”

“Does it usually work?”

He opened the refrigerator with the restless motion of a man who is not hungry but needs something to do with his hands. “Usually.”

He stood there a moment with the door open, then shut it without taking continue reading …