And I understood it last of all, and at the highest cost, because the silence that had let my family be destroyed had not been a stranger’s.

It had been mine, in my own home, wearing the face of a good provider who did not want to make things difficult.

Chapter 30 — Remote

Over the next six months my priorities changed completely.

I stopped trying to be a dutiful son to a woman who had earned none of it, and put every ounce of myself into being a husband and a father.

I arranged to work remotely for several months.