But I will not pretend the light gave me back anything except my own sight.

Chapter 20 — Do Not Explain Yourself to Twenty-Three People

The family group filled with messages by morning, and they came in the shape such messages always take.

One relative wrote that I had embarrassed the family by sharing private finances.

Another, who had not been at Lily’s birthday and had not seen the two unused place settings, wrote that my parents had never asked anyone for an accounting and that I had chosen to make this public.

A third simply told me to stop dragging private family matters into the group.