Craziness was considered funny, like all other things that were in reality frightening and profoundly shameful. - Margaret Atwood

“I am not my childhood," Snowman says out loud.

Instead of this, I tell what I hope will pass as truth. A blunt thing, not lovely. The truth is seldom welcome, especially at dinner, though I am good at what I do. My trade is courage and atrocities. I look at them and do not condemn. I write things down the way they happened, as near as can be remembered. I don’t ask why, because it is mostly the same. Wars happen because the ones who start them think they can win.

Happy endings are best achieved by keeping the right doors locked