Apr 29, 2019
The Summer I Became a Thief
Sometimes I thought of it as war reparations. On the outwardly civil but quietly vicious battlefield of my parents’ divorce, I had been the clear loser.
Sari Botton is a writer and editor living in Kingston, New York. She is the Essays Editor for Longreads, and edited the award-winning anthology "Goodbye to All That: Writers on Loving and Leaving NY" and its New York Times-Bestselling follow-up, "Never Can Say Goodbye: Writers on Their Unshakable Love for NY." In addition to Cataplut, she's taught in the journalism department at SUNY Albany and the continuing education program at SUNY Ulster. She also operates Kingston Writers' Studio.
Photo credit to Sylvie Rosokoff
Sometimes I thought of it as war reparations. On the outwardly civil but quietly vicious battlefield of my parents’ divorce, I had been the clear loser.
