"When he was a young man, this might have been the essence of what my father dreamed of: open roads, miles and miles of unknown potential ahead."
In China, a road trip is the new Chinese dream. For one family, it’s also a chance to break the silence.
"North Carolinians like to claim Lydia’s story as their own, but the tale of the vanishing hitchhiker is widespread."
Revisit one of our favorite 👻 essays on @Longreads, by @efriend, on ghost stories passed down across generations:
"Lucy, Jane, and Jordana work in very different corners of the deathcare world, but each describes the same impulse: to bring care where they found neglect."
Andie Eisen for @LAReviewofBooks: