 she was showing us portraits of mothers that were really, really interesting. As an adult, when I went back and read these books, I noticed all of the ways that mothers show different ways of being a woman in the world in her books, right? So you have a mother on the cusp of a divorce thinking about what her next steps are going to be. Does she want to go back to work? Does she want to go back to school? You have Fudge's mom after she has her third baby