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What I think about Parks' novel

Raaaachel Wang's picture

At first, I was confused by the style that stating a story by different views because I always mixed the charaters together. But before Billy decided to "getting mother's body", I managed to figure out the relationships between characters. The way she wrote this story actually makes the image of each character more clear because we can both know how one person in the novel thinks and how others in the novel think about that person. And here's my questions (I haven't finish reading this novel): Why does Billy Beede dislike her mother that much that she even isn't willing to call her mom? Why does Parks mention the people that Billy encountered on the way that she came to "marry" Snipes, especially the women named Myrna Carter who seemed to lose hope about love?