Chapter 18: Claire Dover: Cheshire Cats and Chandeliers

Photo by Alvaro Serrano

I think the reason my mother is so distant had less to do with just her work hours and more to do with the fact that the one she was closest to wasn’t around.

I found the letters by accident one night while in the closet. The stack of them fell off of a shelf suddenly, as if swept up by a phantom gust of wind. The shelf was one of my father’s. I wonder if she wanted…