How can a family resist a man who shows up years later wanting to get to know his kids? Jessica Shattuck on the charming middle-aged interlopers invading movies—and families.
Jessica Shattuck is the author of The Hazards of Good Breeding, a New York Times Notable Book and a Winship/PEN Award finalist. Her writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The Believer, Wired, Mother Jones, and Glamour, among other publications. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.