POST-MORMON STORIES

Satori on Flatbush Avenue

Just when you think you’ve found a spot where you can pass for normal, along comes someone who reminds you that everything’s relative.

The magical, vanished place where it all happened. (Mooney’s Pub at 353 Flatbush Avenue, Brooklyn, NY, in 2007.)

In June of 1998 I received a startling lesson in perspective. It happened during the NBA Finals, a hard-fought grudge match between the…