Topic: Estrangement

The Weight and the Lever

Approx. 22 min read

Eleven years ago, Sylvie received a letter from her insurer's actuarial contractor: she was legally prohibited from entering a specific grocery store. No explanation was given for why, or what might happen, or to whom. She obeyed. Then her estranged son took a job there, and the prohibition, which had never been anything she understood, became something she had to decide about.