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“I’ve always appreciated women who were interesting rather than beautiful. Probably to prove my mother wrong.
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A single woman, especially back in the 1940s and 1950s, was an aberration, considered barren. With the onset of the ’70s, conventional wisdom had eased slightly, but that was mainly for the younger set. At the age of sixty, Charlotte was past redemption.
He understood that the smallest act revealed the most.
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If Mona had her way, the only way to view the Benin bronzes or an Egyptian stela would be to go to the countries themselves. What a shame that would be for scholars and educators, or for children who would lose the chance to see actual antiquities from around the world up close. For Mona, there were no shades of gray whatsoever. Yet after Charlotte’s conversations on the subject with Annie while they were in Egypt, she’d come to understand that there were no easy answers to the question of repatriation.
The main question of the novel
