“‘This is Diana—our family dropout,’ my mother said for the fifteenth Thanksgiving in a row, but when my sister’s new husband reached across the table to shake my hand, his grip locked, his face went still, and the room forgot how to laugh before he said the two words nobody there was prepared to hear”

LSAT prep courses. She brought it up over the turkey in the offhand way that meant she had been thinking about it for a long time. The June test date was early enough that I could sit for it the summer after freshman year and have plenty of time to retake if needed.

I said I would look at it.

Cassidy caught my eye across the table and made a face, half continue reading …