Every complex family relationship has a subject you cannot touch without detonating a bomb. It might be the brother who died. The money that was lost. The abortion. The prison sentence. Great storylines orbit this forbidden subject, circling closer and closer until the finale, where the button is slammed.
In a functional family, facts are shared. In a dysfunctional family, there are five versions of the same story.
“She never does,” Mara said.