Before I ever saw my father’s other children, I learned that he wanted them destroyed. The request had been entrusted to a neighbor sometime before he died. It was simple, specific, and apparently important enough to repeat: After I die, find the stuffed animals and cremate them.
ESSAYS
Essays and fragments on family mythology, inheritance, grief, design, memory, estrangement, and the absurd evidence people leave behind.
In my late teens, I found my father. This was before the internet turned amateur investigation into a lunch-hour activity. There was no search box
Before I ever saw my father’s other children, I learned that he wanted them destroyed. The request had been entrusted to a neighbor sometime before he died.
Before I ever saw my father’s other children, I learned that he wanted them destroyed. The request had been entrusted to a neighbor sometime before he died.
