Sublime

She walks home in a daze, thinking of the last thing Olivia said to her. “Gifts are fragile. You must never entrust yours to people who might break it.” She doesn’t say who she might be thinking of, and Barbara doesn’t need her to. She has what she needs and doesn’t expect to return to the Harris house again.

It had never before occurred to me that sometimes dishes weren’t just dishes, that things could represent ideas in more powerful ways than the ideas themselves.

IT’S BEEN well-documented that there is a growing sense of entitlement among young people today.

Jane, Genevieve

trenchant,

Start By Sitting Together

Beneath these giants, way down in the understory, her own body seems freakishly small, like one of those acorn-people she made in childhood.

Jane’s favorite in the world, her mother’s favorite, her grandmother’s favorite—could