Unveiling Hidden Truths: Julie Marie Wade’s Riveting Journey in "Other People’s Mothers"
We meet characters like Mrs. Saunders, whom young Wade quickly identifies as one of the “born-to-be-mothers,” and is the “best kind of mother: expecting.” We meet Mrs. Lennox, who “stood in the kitchen talking on the phone, the long cord curled around her fingers as she watched us, her expression sullen, her lips never turned up in a smile.” Wade’s close character studies remind us that even in the stiffest, most starched Pleasantville where “Dockered dads make chit chat in their awkward semi-circles on the lawn,” there is indeed a village of sorts. That young girls see around them, in their own mothers, aunts, their teachers, and in each of their friends’ mothers, an example of how a woman might live her life.
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