Her Mother's Daughter | Characters
The significant characters in Her Mother's Daughter are the women. Frances, the Polish-born grandmother, shapes her daughter Belle's life in many important ways, as reflected in Belle's life-long lament, "My mother never combed my hair." This simple statement encompasses all the unmet needs a little girl felt but could not express to an overworked mother.
Belle is easily the most compelling figure in the story. Sometimes bright and chirpy, sometimes picky and critical to the point of unreason, she haunts her daughter Anastasia's inner life even when Anastasia is in her...
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