Nina: Yes. She let herself be saddened, or almost mourning. In the first half of the book, particularly in the first 10 pages, she’s so, so angry. And by the end of the book, you feel she can allow herself to be sad and to mourn what she didn’t have and even go a step further and start to mourn what her mother didn’t have. She comes to this realization that her mother and all of their sisters — because they didn’t have the power of choice in their husbands, and when they had kids — they could not have a loving relationship. In some sense a loving relationship was reserved only for the wealthy and the privileged. There was a great quote in there, about her mom saying, love goes out the window when you’re poor.
