When he moved out he told Marc it was temporary, that as soon as he and Mom “worked through some things” he’d come back. But Marc hadn’t seen them working at all, just avoiding each other. When he came back from his dad’s apartment—which wasn’t so awful except it had only basic cable—Marc didn’t know whether to say anything about it to his mom. It was like a giant game where they pretended with their mother that their father was dead. His dad sometimes asked about his mom, but like you’d ask about a sick person, like you don’t really want an answer. “How’s your mom doing?” “Fine.” “That’s
...more
