And there was more.

A note from Maya’s high school counselor, from around that same time.

Three months ago, my daughter had gone to her school counselor and asked — carefully, hypothetically, the way a frightened child asks a thing she needs to know — whether a parent was legally allowed to lock a child out of the house as a disciplinary measure, and to confiscate all of a child’s ways of communicating with the outside world.

Chapter 8 — Give Your Father a Chance

I put the phone down after that call, and I buried my face in my hands, because the thing I had to look at now was not what Richard had done.

It was what I had done.