Why is returning to – or staying in – your hometown seen as a bad thing?
Nine months in and I'm questioning why I was so desperate to get away
One of my favourite scenes in Grosse Pointe Blank (which the name of this Substack nods to) is when John Cusack’s character, hitman Martin Blank, discovers that his childhood home has been replaced with an Ultimart convenience store. Leaving an angry message on his therapist’s answering machine, he rants, ‘I’m standing where my living room was, and it’s…