Listen So People Will Talk

摘要

THERE IS A CERTAIN TYPE of situation you know all too well: dinnertime, the whole family gathered around, perhaps even a few visitors… so, of course, that is when your 18-year-old, with a combination of studied insouciance and insolence (only possible for a few, obnoxious years) announces he has registered to vote and is voting for the other party. It can be far worse: perhaps it is your spouse, as traumatized and bereaved as you after the types of terrible losses that so often pile up on one another, refusing to go to church with you after all these years because, "I am not really sure I even believe in God. Maybe I'm an atheist."