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154 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1967
I drink my coffee and my mother says, 'You're so quiet, there's nothing the matter, is there?' She says it sharply, because she only likes me if my soul is resting completely in hers and I don't keep any secret part of it to myself.Tove wird von ihrer Mutter nahezu erstickt. Ihre Mutter möchte alles kontrollieren – "Edvin doesn't want to come up with me because then my mother will suspect that we walked home together and she doesn't like us to have anything together that she's not part of." – sie lässt den Kindern keine Luft zum Atmen. Es ist nicht verwunderlich, dass sowohl Sohn und Tochter fliehen, sobald sie die Möglichkeit dazu haben ("She only has us, and we deserted her as soon as she and the law would permit it.").