The Trash We Carry

Linny Kübler is not a bad mother. She is a loud one. Blunt, profane, relentless — the kind of woman who will chase a garbage truck through traffic on principle alone. On a Tuesday she insists is Tuesday, she loads her eighteen-year-old son Ross into the family SUV, trash and all, and refuses to stop until the job is done. What begins as a war over a missed chore becomes something neither of them planned: a reckoning. A conversation twenty years overdue. And somewhere between the chaos of the road and the weight of everything left unsaid, a mother and her son finally find the words — if not quite the time.