Afterschool Specials: My Dad Lives in a Downtown Hotel

Growing up in the 90s, divorce narratives were never far from reach. I absorbed movies and TV shows about divorce with no qualms. After all, my first set of parents divorced before I was old enough to speak.

I never had to ask questions about divorce. When I watched The Parent Trap, I didn’t question the idea that divorced parents might split up a pair of twins out of…