A Mother's Work

Shelly Leavens Investigates a Disconcerting First Year in Mother//Hoodby Jen GravesLife will unhinge a person. At one point in the last year, Shelly Leavens was on her own with her baby at their house trying to juggle a stupid number of tasks when she looked up and noticed an old painting she'd made of a dapper gentleman holding a cigar out to one side, between puffs and witticisms. Life-size, with his head cocked and his hair perfectly oiled and smoothed, he was living somewhere else."Don't jus