r own path in life. Little did she know at the time that this fear would become a reality. Similarly, in the book Unless the young woman named Norah is also on her own and away from her family for the first time. Norah's mother Reta reflects: "I didn't think about our girls growing older and leaving home and falling away from us" (Shields 11). Norah shocked her entire family by mysteriously choosing to leave. She was on the right path and had everything a girl could ask for, yet somehow that was not the life she had anticipated. Both of these young women are on paths of self-discovery alone and without interference from those they care about. Astrid must discover herself while in foster care; therefore these foster families influence her judgment. Astrid remembers: "All my mothers. Like
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