![]() ![]() “From here, her mother looks young - could be any of the girls, making sure the face she’s wearing is the one the world wants - and at this thought, Frankie suddenly breaks through, not just a mother, but a whole person. But perhaps the most moving moment in this story comes when Margot sees her mother sitting in the car and comes to an important realization. After Frankie realizes something is going on between her daughter and a teacher, she intervenes in a thrilling and unexpected way. “Could this happen to her one day, some man make her small inside her own body?” she wonders. ![]() When Frankie confesses to her husband a transgression with another man she hadn’t even slept with, her teenager, Margot, can’t stand that her mother didn’t go after what she wanted yet was still punished for it. In another mesmerizing story, “The Hearts of Our Enemies,” a woman’s unconsummated affair creates a rift with her daughter. ![]()
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