Her Family Came With a U-Haul, but the Gate Exposed the Truth

and they had come with a truck, and I had come down to open my store on an ordinary morning and found strangers loading it into the wet.

I want to describe what I felt, standing in that doorway, because it was not what you would expect. It was not, at first, rage. It was a kind of vertigo, a sense that the world had come loose from its moorings, because continue reading …