The First Year

Sophia's POV

The first year of Soren's life was the fullest year I had lived in either of my lives — the most difficult and the most extraordinary in the specific, inseparable way that those two things are always the same thing when they are both true at once.

He was not a quiet child. I had not expected a quiet child — his father had never been quiet in any sense that mattered, had simply been quiet in the performed, controlled sense of a man who did not give his inner life ...