If I'd been oblivious to the multidimensional dangers seething below the surface of suburban life, the kids and the pool and the hillside out back brought them home to me.
The writer worried that the story was "too niche, too odd," the crime of flower theft "too minor." To think, I had loved it for precisely those qualities.
More than a century after driving out their Chinese residents, cities across the West are saying sorry, with parks, plaques, and proclamations. But it's seldom clear who they're talking to--or what they're remembering.