She looks longingly over my shoulder, then glances at both Mira and me in turn. “You don’t have to understand my choices. You simply have to survive. I love you enough to bear the weight of your disappointment.” Before either of us
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I wanted more of the mother in this book: her perspective, her decisions, her humanity. Maybe because I can understand the decisions she’s making in the sense that they’re terrible and almost unforgivable but founded on a love that is even more so than all those other things.
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