![]() She’s especially been taken under the wing of her science teacher, who encourages her to enter the science fair. When her mother allows her to go to school – which she often doesn’t – Tille is recognized by her teachers for her gifted, inquisitive mind. She gloats that Tillie is a source of ridicule at school – because she’s too smart, too introverted, too geekily dressed.īut Tillie has an escape hatch. She alone tries to be nice to Tillie, but even she can’t sustain it. Tillie’s older sister, Ruth, a blossoming adolescent, crumbled under the strain. She married the wrong man, and before she knew it, she was alone, saddled with two kids. But she was, she claims, a victim of bad luck and poor choices. ![]() ![]() Unfortunately, she’s trapped in a small, claustrophobic world, ruled over by her alcoholic, narcissistic, abusive, bipolar mother, who freely admits that she “hates the world.”īeatrice, once had dreams, too. She loves the thought that some atoms in her body were at one time stars. ![]()
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