I love this excerpt from our January selection over at The Middle Book Club. I mean, who hasn’t been able to relate at one time or another?
“If our house were a city, I would be the mayor and the city workers, and Grant would be a visitor on vacation. It represented different activity-to-rest ratios for us. This was part of the reason I wanted to get away from our home, because everywhere I looked, I saw something broken or neglected that I knew Grant, whose life was of the mind, wouldn’t see—and certainly wouldn’t recognize as a problem.”
“If our house were a city, I would be the mayor and the city workers, and Grant would be a visitor on vacation. It represented different activity-to-rest ratios for us. This was part of the reason I wanted to get away from our home, because everywhere I looked, I saw something broken or neglected that I knew Grant, whose life was of the mind, wouldn’t see—and certainly wouldn’t recognize as a problem.”