By John Solomon
How the government's punishing of the exposure of official wrongdoing can linger for years

Never name a girl child Zelda. That's just asking for trouble because we know only one Zelda, and we all know what happened to her. And Zelda ("Zee") Mallory, the center of the novel if not its narrator-protagonist, is one mixed-up lady, although it takes a long time for that to become clear.
Of course, she tells no one this fact, certainly not the grandchildren he never met.