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There is, however, a world of wealth that makes my family look plebeian. I became a connoisseur of this world in my twenties when I became a high-end art dealer, and doing so utterly skewered my reality. My vocabulary changed. Words like vernissage, fractional gifts, chandelier bids, freeports, and…

[...] Apart from the blank and unsullied aspect lent by its newness, the apartment was mediocre in every way. The appliances were shiny but midgrade, the floors were of a synthetic wood-like substance rather than real wood, the windows creaked, the sinks were raised basins that spilled water everyw…

How liberating it had been to have a partner willing at the drop of a hat to rise to the challenge of being egregiously, unapologetically, absurdly wrong, and still press the point. The sheer intensity of their fights testified to their uncommon compatibility as a couple. Surely such acrimony would…

They were going through what they had privately acknowledged to friends and family as a rough patch. They had been together for four years, married for two, living in the apartment for one, and driving each other crazy for eight straight months.

[...] They were young, still in their early twenties. They had decades to figure it out. She wanted to edit books. To have an office with floor to ceiling bookcases, a vase of fresh flowers near a wall of thank-you notes from famous authors. She wanted conversations at restaurants that made her blo…