Fishing for the Omen

One Christmas, the writer and critic Emily LaBarge was vacationing on a coral island in the Atlantic when six masked men with guns and machetes broke into her home. They ransacked the rental property and held LaBarge and her family hostage for hours, while the 1993 comedy Mrs. Doubtfire blasted on the living room television. Eventually the men left; the family survived; the event was over. Although, as LaBarge would discover upon her return to London, it also wasn’t over.