Anne Tyler. Spool of blue thread (№ 413374)

“I don’t know for sure,” Abby said. - Nowadays, you ask people about children and you understand that they don't even want to say anything. They mumble: "Well, you know, our son graduated from Yale, but now he, uh ..." And in the end it turns out that he is a bartender or makes cappuccino and generally returned and lives at home again.