Month: April 2025

I wrote The Names because I’ve always been fascinated by the things that shape us as people. Our upbringing, our circumstances, the interests we’re steered toward, the people we cross paths with, the hand fate deals us, all play a part in dictating who we might become. And in many cases, the name we’re given, too. In The Names, we follow three versions of a family’s life, depending on the name a mother registers for her newborn son. In one …