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Had my mother truly been sick? And Marian? Amma and me? Sometimes I think illness sits inside every woman, waiting for the right moment to bloom. I have known so many sick women all my life. Women with chronic pain, women with ever-gestating diseases. Women with conditions. Men, sure, they have bone snaps, they have backaches, they have a surgery on two, yank out a tonsil, insert a shiny plastic hip.Women get consumed.
—Camille trying to come to terms with the possibility that Adora may have been responsible for Marian's sickness.
