That scene is a world in miniature, a story sketched in black and white, an interpretation of life as it no longer is. It’s a drawing so suitable for framing that I wonder if the original...

Katheryn Krotzer Laborde is a New Orleans writer who grew up thinking she was the product of a mixed marriage, all because her mother was a Virginian and her father was from Philly.

Nothing was as it should be, and no one was where he should be.