Chapter 2
So why are we spending Father’s Day with the mayor and what passes for his family? Why isn’t he spending the day with his own wife and kiddies? That’s a long story. Dad and he—Mike—go back to high school days, in the next town over. That was a rural village then and isn’t much bigger now. They played football together and f****d their girlfriends in the same car on double dates. Depending on whose father’s car, in the front seat or in the back. I’d heard them joke about ‘not that old steering wheel again’ but I didn’t know if it was the punchline of a joke or not. I didn’t want to know, either. In fact, about the time my mom left or disappeared or whatever, the mayor’s wife had left him. She had taken their daughter and left. He was outraged. My father tended more toward sadness
