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Aunt Julia is Albert’s aunt and Odie’s biological mother. She is Rosalee’s sister and Ezekiel’s sister-in-law. Julia lives in Saint Louis, Missouri, where she manages the brothel where Mrs. Brickman once worked. Dolores is one of her employees. Odie hopes to make a home with Aunt Julia, though he does not know she is his mother until the novel’s final part. Aunt Julia’s acceptance of Odie and the painful experience of asking for his forgiveness is a powerful illustration of personal growth.
Aunt Julia Quotes in This Tender Land
The This Tender Land quotes below are all either spoken by Aunt Julia or refer to Aunt Julia. 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 63
Quotes
We are creatures of spirit, I have come to believe, and this spirit runs through us like electricity and can be passed one to another. That’s what I felt coming from my mother’s hand, the spirit of her deep longing. I was her son, her only son, and the photographs in her lap, the money she’d sent, her naïve willingness to believe the lies of the Black Witch, all told me that she’d never stopped loving me.
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Aunt Julia Quotes in This Tender Land
The This Tender Land quotes below are all either spoken by Aunt Julia or refer to Aunt Julia. 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 63
Quotes
We are creatures of spirit, I have come to believe, and this spirit runs through us like electricity and can be passed one to another. That’s what I felt coming from my mother’s hand, the spirit of her deep longing. I was her son, her only son, and the photographs in her lap, the money she’d sent, her naïve willingness to believe the lies of the Black Witch, all told me that she’d never stopped loving me.
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