Without another word, she turned and hurried to the bedroom, and grabbed her handbag and a jacket, and she was out the front door within the minute, and it slammed behind her, and the house went suddenly, enormously quiet.

Chapter 14 — The Weight She Should Never Have Held

After the door slammed, I sat back down on the kitchen floor between my two children, and I held them both, and for a while none of us said anything, and Leo fell asleep against my chest, and Lily leaned her head on my arm, and the three of us just breathed.

And I thought about weight.