“It’s an art, the way women punish themselves. I kept myself from my mother’s grave after she died because I feared I was just as much at fault for her death as my father. Ivy had spent years blaming herself for the sins an outsider committed. And my mother never let herself trust her own heart.”

“It’s an art, the way women punish themselves. I kept myself from my mother’s grave after she died because I feared I was just as much at fault for her death as my father. Ivy had spent years blaming herself for the sins an outsider committed. And my mother never let herself trust her own heart.”

— Amy Jo Burns