The Rest of Her Life, Week 6-Post B

The Rest of Her Life is a really good book. I have been hooked ever since I began reading, and have found it to get more and more interesting. This book is almost like a soap opera to some degree. At some points it is confusing though, like when it jumps back and forth to Leigh’s past and present. This week I read mostly about her past, but her past is not far behind the present. Leigh described Kara as a baby, and told the story of when Leigh’s mother came back for the first and only time. After meeting her mother’s new fiancé, Wayne, and talked with her mother, Leigh seemed to become irritated with her mother. “The diamond was enormous, twice the size of Leigh’s. Things started to make more sense” (182). As I learned earlier in the book, Leigh’s mother had never had much money and this was the answer. After Leigh got very mad with her mom and told her off, I think she was disappointed in herself, but also felt confident in that she really let her mom know how she felt she was treated when she was younger. “Later, When she was calmer, when she could reflect on the day more clearly, Leigh would remember that in her final speech to her mother, she had said the word go several times” ( pg 191). I think Leigh in some sense wanted her mother to feel what Leigh felt when her mother left her as a child. I agree with Leigh’s point even though it was a little harsh. Leigh’s mom should have not come back like nothing happened; she should have at least apologized.