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In a touch of magical realism, Dolores hears a chorus of voices made up of her deceased female relatives, including her two mothers, aunts, great-aunts and grandmothers, commenting on her decisions.
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Mary Ann Grossmann, Twin Cities, 12 Oct. 2025
My great-aunt Sabena, who lost her husband and children in the Holocaust, standing up at the end of each seder and delivering a short speech in Yiddish thanking the family for giving her a new life in Canada.
—Big Think, 23 Sep. 2025
Eventually, Mary retreated to her family’s ancestral house in Kerala, presided over by an almost blind grandmother, a censorious great-aunt, and a Rhodes Scholar uncle who held forth at dinner about Dionysus.
—Rebecca Mead, New Yorker, 3 Sep. 2025
The child even asked if her great-aunt had been sketching Taylor Swift, unaware of how long ago the drawings were made.
—Lydia Patrick, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Aug. 2025
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Mary Ann Grossmann, Twin Cities, 12 Oct. 2025
My great-aunt Sabena, who lost her husband and children in the Holocaust, standing up at the end of each seder and delivering a short speech in Yiddish thanking the family for giving her a new life in Canada.
—Big Think, 23 Sep. 2025
Eventually, Mary retreated to her family’s ancestral house in Kerala, presided over by an almost blind grandmother, a censorious great-aunt, and a Rhodes Scholar uncle who held forth at dinner about Dionysus.
—Rebecca Mead, New Yorker, 3 Sep. 2025
The child even asked if her great-aunt had been sketching Taylor Swift, unaware of how long ago the drawings were made.
—Lydia Patrick, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Aug. 2025
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“Great-aunt.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/great-aunt. Accessed 18 Oct. 2025.
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