Status Updates From Maia (Les Sept Soeurs, #1)

“Senhorita Lutz …was campaigning for all women in Brazil to have the vote. Bel followed her progress avidly. It seemed that times were changing for other women in Brazil, but here she was, with a father who was stuck in the past, still believing women should simply be married off to the highest bidder before producing a healthy brood of children.”

What would make a dying grandmother refuse to acknowledge a potential granddaughter?

“I poured myself a glass of wine, thinking how each one of my sisters had offered me space in her life; if I chose, I could literally spend the next year, traversing the globe and inhabit their various worlds. But here I was, still living in my childhood home.”

The strongest elder daughter vibes from Maia, but also deeply relating to “brusque and too practical… [but feels] everything inside” younger sister CeCe