Richardson looked at Izzy, that feeling of things spiraling out of control coiled around her again, like a muscle she didn’t know how to unclench.” When Izzy runs away at the end to find Mia (whom Elena has kicked out of the duplex), it’s because she wants desperately to be mothered, just not by her own mom. Elena “had learned, with Izzy’s birth, how your life could trundle along on its safe little track and then, with no warning, skid spectacularly off course.
Elena is outwardly appalled yet she knows what it means to feel maternally protective to the point of possessiveness: Her Izzy, iconoclastic troublemaker, was born 11 weeks premature with a “tenacity of will that even the doctors remarked upon” and a host of potential problems that threatened to manifest later in life. Richardson would have much preferred to have kept in its box.” She sets off to dig into Mia’s past, and finds that Pearl (SPOILER ALERT) is the daughter Mia conceived as a surrogate for a wealthy couple, before running away across the country and keeping the baby for herself. Elena becomes consumed by Mia, someone who reflected back to her a “dark discomfort.
As Elena’s tenant, Pearl involves herself with the Richardson kids, befriending Lexie and Moody, crushing on Trip - but it’s the mothers in the story who get the most entangled.
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