Sarah’s headshrinker was big on “the question of the week.” Avery had noticed the guy used it every time to signal the end of their session—“Well, that’s the question of the week, isn’t it?”—as a more polite version of “Time’s up; see you next week.” And whatever the question was, the guy always wrote it down in your ever-fattening file and expected you to think about it and come back prepared to discuss your answer. And the next time you showed up, he opened the file that you never got to see, peered into it through the wire-rimmed reading glasses that were always there (either on his nose or pushed up onto his forehead like a second set of silver eyebrows). He used his stubby index finger to scan the last page of his notes, muttering, “Now, let’s see…the question of the week was…?” After six weeks—no, seven; this week made it seven—Sarah’s headshrinker was technically Avery’s headshrinker also, but she’d had him so much longer—almost a year now—Avery was resistant to laying claim.
What do You think about A Place We Knew Well (2015)?
