Not out of spite.

Out of something more like awe, that a woman who had crawled out of a house on her elbows now had the entire machinery of the law standing between her and the people who had broken her.

Chapter 15 — What Is Broken

I moved to Washington, to a small craftsman house outside Seattle with a big barn out back, and I turned the barn into a workshop, and I called it Heartwood Restorations, and I began to build a life out of fixing broken things.

I restore old furniture.