I Came Home After Four Years Working Abroad and Found My Wife Starving in Our Backyard—Then My Mother Asked About the Money I Hadn’t Told Her Was Fake
“Fine. Worked.”
She leaned toward me.
“Do you know what it is like living with someone who is constantly sick?”
I thought of Phoebe in the shed.
“No.”
Selina continued.
“She stopped cleaning.”
“She had cancer.”