Going through our mother’s papers, my sister recently found
a copy of this essay, which I wrote in my early twenties, about the experience
of meeting my birth family for the first time. Tomorrow is the thirty-year
anniversary...
I’d like to begin this post by reminding readers
how much I LOVED The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay. This is an
incredible novel! Buy it! Read it! Also, I enjoyed The Mysteries of Pittsburgh very
much...
"As soon as we express something, we devalue it strangely. We believe ourselves to have dived down into the depths of the abyss, and when we once again reach the surface, the drops of water on our pale fingertips no longer resemble the ocean from which they came...Nevertheless, the treasure shimmers in the darkness unchanged." ---Franz Kafka
