My Parents Told Me to Give My $30,000 College Fund to My Sister — or Drop Out and Stay Home to Clean

the material conditions but because of the silence where my family used to be. Even a difficult family creates a kind of ambient noise that you don’t realize you’ve been orienting yourself against until it’s gone. The absence was disorienting. I would wake at three in the morning and lie in my studio with the laundromat machines running below and think:continue reading …