r more and would often get mad when people told her that she looked nothing at all like her mother. All she ever thought was that she must look like her father who was a complete stranger to her. Despite what others would say, Anney told her daughter that she did resemble her. "You look like me," Mama said. "You look like my own baby girl" (30). Anney took good care of her daughters. Bone looked forward to each night when her mother would brush her hair. "I would breathe deep and bite my lips to keep from moaning while my scalp ached and burned. I would have cut off my head before I let them cut my hair and lost the unspeakable pleasure of being drawn up onto Mama's lap every evening" (31). This nightly ritual was one of the many of the few things Bone treasured.
             Anney's brief marriage quickly turned her into a widow, which next led to her unpredictable, painful marriage to Daddy Glen. Anney met Glen who proclaimed his love for her, Bone, and Reese, a little while after he came into their lives. Despite what Anney's family felt about him, she thought it was best to marry him. "That boys got something wrong with him" (37) Granny told Anney. "He's always looking at me out the sides of his eyes like some old junkyard dog waiting to steal a bone" (37). The majority of Anney's family had these same uncomfortable feelings about Glen, but that did not stop Anney. Maybelle, one of the Eustis aunts, also saw a side of Glen that made her uneasy. "Yeah, Glen loves Anney. He loves her like a gambler loves a fast racehorse or a desperate man loves whisky. That kind of love eats a man up. I don't trust that boy, don't want our Anney marrying him" (41). She deceived herself by what he told her and she convinced herself that everything he said was the truth. Glen begged Anney to take him in and told them all lies, "Call me Daddy ...