Michelle Huneven

My first clearly articulated thought — it came to me when I was probably 2 and a half or 3, standing in the front yard by the myoporum hedge — had to do with my parents: Who are these people? Why are they acting that way? And how is it that I’ve come to live among them?
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Michelle Huneven is the author, most recently, of the novel “Off Course.” This essay is adapted from a forthcoming collection, “Selfish, Shallow, and Self-Absorbed: Sixteen Writers on the Decision Not to Have Kids.”