In the summer of 2003, college student Mara Whitefish and her friends venture outside the city to a party at the home of a successful young writer, one of many seizing the advent of online blogs to make a name for himself. Among the guests are people Mara knows well, people she’s only loosely connected to, and people she doesn’t know at all. During the day, a family can be seen in the yard, including two young children running and playing with boundless energy. By evening, the family has left, but playing as Mara, I noticed a new detail had appeared in their absence: a row of miniature animals all carefully placed under a nearby clothesline, “each positioned in line with the greatest deliberation.”  © Three Bees Presumably at some point one or both of the kids I’d seen before had come over here and done this, using toys and imagination and their own burgeoning understanding of the world to make something and in so doing, to try to create some sense of order in all the dazzling, overstimulating,…