Ive noticed a strange similarity between the faces of ex-congresswoman Davenport and the homeless woman Alice. Are they related?
No, although Lacey, in her creeping dementia, is fully persuaded that Alice is her deceased sister, Pearl. One reader has suggested that the physical resemblance is the artist’s comment on our common humanity and the quirks of fate that separate one life’s outcome from another’s. While an appealing supposition, it gives GBT too much credit.
