in the 1950s. The tension between her membership in those two groups will determine much of her life’s progress. Sylvia — Sylvie to her nearest and dearest — has a strong liberal, feminist bent, which she slowly realizes in this stealthily devastating story puts her at odds with much of her country and even her family.
Both before and after Aviva’s birth, Sylvie also struggles with the way society pits the one against the many. During the early case that leads to the contempt charge, she is an intern in the Boston Public Defender Office. A woman named Amy McCartney refuses to testify against her husband, who raped and beat her nearly to death. Sylvie’s feminist indignation feeds her silence in court, enraging the judge in that case.
For Sylvie, this is a good thing, because there are decisions in her life she’d like to reverse. One, all too common, involves a rift with her daughter. When it threatens to become irreconcilable, Mariana steps in, as she did during Aviva’s infancy, to give the younger woman space and time for healing — a process Sylvie never truly appreciated.
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