“Of course, life before the recession was hardly unchanging — we lost the pasture, the road, the persimmon trees. But those losses were incorporated more easily, more gradually, into our narratives. This recession was different — it was an absolute end to one chapter of our lives, and the beginning of a new and awfully difficult one. Before the recession, change was natural. In the post-recession landscape, all change is haunted by the devastation of the storm, and thus inseparable from it. Even the construction of a house is seen through a scrim of loss.”