n child, until I stumbled into a dusty storage room
, showing near-perfect scores that shattered everything our wea
to my father, expecti
mother's teacup rattled, and Grandfather
ob, my funds, my home-ripped away, leaving me bew
ngrateful," and my own mother, without a flicker of warmth,
assaulted by my father and uncles when I tried
h
es trigger such a violent, absolute b
agmented and disturbing,
d the real reason for my grandfather's "stroke": "He wa
amily's obsession with secrecy, and my sudden banishmen
earth every single buried secret