The Inheritance Clause
Or rather, she was writing it, but only as the architecture behind the thing she was actually writing, which was the story of a family, which was something else entirely, wider and deeper and considerably more interesting than the story of a company.
When Dominic came back, she did not look up.
He did not expect her to.
He made more coffee.
He sat across from her and he read.
This was their Tuesday morning.
It was, she thought, on the fortieth Tuesday of doing it, the best Tuesday morning available.
Sofia had joined the drama club in September.
She had mentioned this at dinner with the studied casualness of a twelve-year-old who is trying to prevent her parents from making a significant mome