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Avery Parker is Calvin’s biological mother. Calvin was separated from her at birth, and she spent much of her life believing he was dead. When she discovered her son was alive, she did everything she could to find him. She is a compassionate and intelligent woman who wants to be a good grandmother to Madeline since she can no longer be a mother to Calvin.
Avery Parker Quotes in Lessons in Chemistry
The Lessons in Chemistry quotes below are all either spoken by Avery Parker or refer to Avery Parker. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 18: Legally Mad
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So, sometime after it was all over, when a nurse came in with a stack of papers demanding to know something—how she felt?—she decided to tell her.
“Mad.”
“Mad?” the nurse had asked.
“Yes, mad,” Elizabeth had answered. Because she was. “Are you sure?” the nurse had asked.
“Of course I’m sure!”
And the nurse, who was tired of tending to women who were never at their best—this one had practically engraved her name on her arm during labor—wrote “Mad” on the birth certificate and stalked out.
So there it was: the baby’s legal name was Mad. Mad Zott.
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Chapter 45: Supper at Six
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“Let’s say supper at six, then,” Elizabeth said, not wanting her to go. “The home lab. Everyone—you, Wilson, Mad, Sixty-Thirty, me, Harriet, Walter. You’ll need to meet Wakely and Mason at some point, too. The whole family.”
Avery Parker, her face suddenly familiar with Calvin’s smile, turned back and took Elizabeth’s hands in her own. “The whole family,” she said.
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Avery Parker Quotes in Lessons in Chemistry
The Lessons in Chemistry quotes below are all either spoken by Avery Parker or refer to Avery Parker. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Chapter 18: Legally Mad
Quotes
So, sometime after it was all over, when a nurse came in with a stack of papers demanding to know something—how she felt?—she decided to tell her.
“Mad.”
“Mad?” the nurse had asked.
“Yes, mad,” Elizabeth had answered. Because she was. “Are you sure?” the nurse had asked.
“Of course I’m sure!”
And the nurse, who was tired of tending to women who were never at their best—this one had practically engraved her name on her arm during labor—wrote “Mad” on the birth certificate and stalked out.
So there it was: the baby’s legal name was Mad. Mad Zott.
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Page Number and Citation:
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Chapter 45: Supper at Six
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“Let’s say supper at six, then,” Elizabeth said, not wanting her to go. “The home lab. Everyone—you, Wilson, Mad, Sixty-Thirty, me, Harriet, Walter. You’ll need to meet Wakely and Mason at some point, too. The whole family.”
Avery Parker, her face suddenly familiar with Calvin’s smile, turned back and took Elizabeth’s hands in her own. “The whole family,” she said.
