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Iris McDermott lives with her sister, Violet, and their adopted children, Norma Sockalexis, Emily, and Scotty. They form one of the main families on Apple Island. Iris has darker skin. The sisters make a living doing laundry on the island. Neither of the sisters ever married or even had serious suitors. Iris has a quick temper.
Iris McDermott Quotes in This Other Eden
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Violet had milky skin and tightly curled burnished-copper red hair that flared red beneath the sun and fuller moons, and had her parents’ broad nose, across which dry dark freckles were speckled. Her mouth was full, like her parents’ as well, her lips pale. Her eyes were the color of greening copper. Iris had her parents’ acorn dark skin, but the narrow nose and thin lips of her Irish ancestors persisted in her face, as did their hair, which she inherited straight and black.
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Iris McDermott Quotes in This Other Eden
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Violet had milky skin and tightly curled burnished-copper red hair that flared red beneath the sun and fuller moons, and had her parents’ broad nose, across which dry dark freckles were speckled. Her mouth was full, like her parents’ as well, her lips pale. Her eyes were the color of greening copper. Iris had her parents’ acorn dark skin, but the narrow nose and thin lips of her Irish ancestors persisted in her face, as did their hair, which she inherited straight and black.
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