Ahnwee Days

Life is not going as planned for Sybil Voss. Growing up in a small town on the Great Plains, she had one goal: to get out as soon as she could. She succeeded, moving to New York after college and building a reasonably happy life. But now she’ s back, the sole caregiver for her elderly father who suffers from “ media-induced psychosis” and can only communicate through TV sitcoms.

But Sybil’ s making the best of it, running her antique business, “ New York ’ Tiques,” serving as mayor (since no...