All Rights for All

My dad was born in London. My grandparents were English and they became citizens. Their British outlook on life didn't match my mother's Brooklyn Irish Catholic ways or what I had learned from living in France with my family as a girl. Growing up, I watched generational and cultural clashes at holiday meals and saw how grown-ups believed their opinions were right. Reading became an escape from conflicts at home and a way to make sense of life beyond our house. Decades later, my need to know made