Her brother Nath was ready to leave his family and go away to college—“to start over as a new person with a new life.”
It’s “just a problem of geography,” he thought, “with the confidence of someone who had never yet tried to free himself of family.”
Most of us, like Nath, a character in the book Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng, find that it can be difficult to free ourselves of family.