Anastasia Higginbotham’s first book opens with an image of a child holding a glass of milk. The sky outside is partly cloudy, but still blue. A speech bubble floats in from off the page with a parent’s words: “We have something to tell you.”
The particular “something” can be discerned from the book’s title, “Divorce Is the Worst.” But similar scenes of foreboding are playing themselves out in millions of homes during the novel coronavirus pandemic, as most of the nation’s children are home from school and parents across the country are wrestling with how to explain things we don’t yet fully understand ourselves…