she had a brother who died? Cady told herself she didn’t want to make anyone uncomfortable, but there was the more selfish reason; she didn’t want to be tragic. Tragedy taints a person, and no one wants to touch that sadness, just in case it spreads. A genius brother was one thing, a brother dead by suicide was another. She so badly wanted to rewrite that story, to give him, both of them, a better ending. And if that wasn’t possible, she didn’t want to tell the story at all.
