Illness is intensely personal, but it never affects the person diagnosed alone. Like a lot of women in America, I’m a huge fan of Nora Ephron. The HBO documentary on her life, Everything is Copy, was a window into the feel-good films I was raised on (Sleepless in Seattle, When Harry Met Sally, You’ve Got […]
I’d been hurt by the facade of the “nuclear family,” and I never saw a roadmap for the kind of childhood I had. I was 8 the first time I had a nervous breakdown and wanted to die. Some of us are born into families that, for whatever reason, aren’t able to be families to […]
Always, that stench is there in that cursed house, as if the walls had absorbed it permanently, or as if he himself consumed so much of it that he’d become the very source of it. The first time it happens, I don’t say anything. Of course I don’t say anything; that’s just how it was […]
