A man returns home after two years abroad — but upon witnessing how his wife treats their daughter, he takes a shocking action that changes everything

in her robe and sat at the table without ceremony, the way she sat at tables that were hers.

Aleksei cooked eggs for three people in his daughter’s kitchen in his daughter’s apartment on the morning after he came home.

Epilogue: What Home Is

He had thought, across two years of construction sites and night shifts and Sunday calls, that what he was working continue reading …