FIGURING OUT HOW TO do small talk with the other yoga parents has not been going well, although he’s learning. Marginally. Having the kids to talk about at least provides a topic that’s not his job or his personal life, and the general ethical code of Los Angeles prevents people from asking too many intrusive questions. But he knows that eventually, somehow, it’s going to become public knowledge that he and Ali go to these classes. Then random fans will decide to get on planes with their own seven-year-olds for an awkward yoga stalking vacation. Even in his own head he sounds paranoid and irrational. But he also knows he’s not wrong.
He finally extricates himself from a conversation on the supposed advantages of a thirty-day kale cleanse with a woman who probably doesn’t vaccinate her chi
