Chasing the Owl

After my sister died, I thought that was the only creature that could answer my questions

After my sister died when I was five, I sought answers from an owl. [Kevin Shay photo]

On a cold February early morning in 2015, a man drove his car down a secluded residential street in Tukwila, a Seattle suburb of about 22,000 people near the main airport. He nearly flew over a hill as he reached about 45 miles per hour, crashing through a home’s metal gate and into a…