Clarice asked herself how on earth she had ended up being the one Supreme who turned into her mother. Odette might look like Dora Jackson, but she was as different as she could be from her mother, who had always scared Clarice a bit with her talk of ghosts and her countrified brusqueness. And with all of her wealth, civic-mindedness, and charitable deeds, Barbara Jean was about as far as she could get from living the sad, desperate life her mother had lived. Clarice had been the one to follow her mother’s example. She had become a pillar of her church, striving for biblical
