Amma. All this time I d had little real interest in her. Now I did

What I saw at the farm kept my throat clenched. My mother said she was the most popular girl in school, and I believed it. Jackie said she was the meanest, and I believed that, too. Living in the swirl of Adoras bitterness had to make one a bit crooked. And what did Amma make of Marian, I wondered How confusing to live in the shadow of a shadow. But Amma was a smart girlshe did her acting out away from home. Near Adora she was compliant, sweet, needyjust what she had to be, to get my mothers love.