My Mother Gave Me 48 Hours to Leave the House I Had Been Paying For Until My Lawyer Reviewed the Papers

implications that would take some time to fully untangle.

When I hung up I sat in the dark of my room for a long time without turning on a light.

I thought about my grandfather. He had been a carpenter by trade and a careful reader by inclination, a man who kept books in every room of the house and argued about what he read with genuine enthusiasm. He continue reading …