In The Third Month Of Marriage My Mother In Law Made A Move That Changed Everything

been building toward that text for months. I just hadn’t let myself see it clearly enough to name it. Patricia Anne Mercer, sixty-three years old, retired school administrator, pillar of her church community in Westlake, Ohio. A woman of precise opinions and very wide silences.

And Daniel, my husband of ninety-three days, Daniel Christopher Mercer, continue reading …