Desamparo - The American Scholar

Desamparo - The American Scholar

My friend from Kansas, trying to get his life back on track after his wife’s death six months before, was considering a move from the last home they had shared in Lawrence to Athens, Georgia, where they had once lived and where he still knew people. He had recently made two brief sojourns to the city in the hope that something would click, giving him a sense that moving there would be the right decision. He even volunteered on both visits at the…