![]() ![]() ![]() But for all her anger at the way she’s been treated, does she have the skills to out-maneuver her mother? In the chapters she narrates we learn of her efforts to connect with other people, and see her resentments flare when she is spurned. ![]() ![]() Indeed, she has spent the savings for dental work on the deposit on a house for that very purpose, explaining to horrified neighbors that after all Patty is her mother and deserves forgiveness.īut Rose Gold hasn’t forgiven her. While her mother was in prison, teenage Rose Gold started eating and let her hair grow, so when Patty is released, she is holding down a job as a cashier and saving money so she can fix her teeth that are her most disfiguring feature.Ĭlearly Rose Gold has every excuse to avoid her newly released mother, yet she takes her in. This kudos is what she has sought by dosing Rose Gold with ipecac, which causes vomiting - the symptom Patty used to justify an array of diagnoses and treatments.Īs well as vomiting, Rose Gold suffered baldness because Patty claimed a shorn head looked better than one with clumps of missing hair, rotting yellow snaggle-teeth discolored from years of throwing up stomach acid, and home-schooling because her physical problems made her the butt of bullies at school. ![]()
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