IF I HAD WINGS, MISTER MOONBooks and movies tell you it’s darkly romantic when:
A young woman returns to inhabit the world from an uncertain place, such as a mental institution to which she’d been committed for mysterious reasons over which outsiders can only speculate; or perhaps a girl is claimed from an orphanage but carries with her the great loneliness that filled her days there, a loneliness unknowable by those who come from easier places, such as those who’ve adopted her and are therefore destined to never fully understand her; or maybe a teenager has left home, vacating a life of dysfunction with parents more immature than the children they raised when, inevitably, she moves directly – almost as if preordained – into a new life as unfulfilling as the one she knew before; or possib
