Jessie Tu

Ostensibly, it's another character, this house, and kind of foreshadowing the sense of what the house is going to and how the house is going to impact the lives of these three women as they enter the

this new phase in their life.

And we're wondering, like, what are they trying to escape?

That question is always hanging above our heads.

She is quite obscure, doesn't she?

There's like this sort of sense of a veil placed over her character throughout the whole book.

Hey, yeah, I felt that definitely.

I mean, we slowly, the way in which Johnson trickles these little crumbs of Sheila, the mother's name is Sheila, across the book.

I mean, it's a very short book, but it's still there.

The places in which she comes into the narrative and slowly revealed it's,

almost like ghosts, like the way that she penetrates the narrative and then comes out through it again.

And we slowly understand that she is rather unhappy.

She's depressed.

There are incidences that happened, which Johnson describes as like small violences, which had occurred with her marriage with the father of

July and September which sort of is still haunting her but in a way that we are never able to fully comprehend because July like you said we're entering this narrative through her perspective predominantly she doesn't know really about she doesn't understand what her mother is going through and so that sense of distance that distance um with your with the mother um is so beautifully but also very hauntingly extricated I think through that narrative

Oh, September is the ringleader.

She is basically the more dominant character between, you know, the relationship between her and her sister.

She is

extremely manipulative.

She's abusive.