Sublime

Not only did I learn how to write a novel in Provincetown, I found the perfect person to read it. Elizabeth McCracken was another of the writing fellows at the Work Center that season, and she lived three houses away from me. If I looked out my kitchen window I could see if her light was on. Sometimes you don’t realize what’s lacking in life until

ersatz.

precocious.

what became a theme of the games he would go on to make with Sadie—was how quickly the world could shift. How your sense of self could change depending on your location.

He and his wife had split up, yet he was still somehow part of her family.

I tell myself she was a luxury, like fruit out of season, lucky to have but temporary.