Night Women
- Characters
- Mom
- 25
- Prostitute
- Symbolism of night
- Dreads the night
- Needs the night
- Stars
- "suitors" like looking at stars
- Stars in ghost women's hair
- Son
- Young?
- Doesn't know his mom is a prostitute
- Father
- Out of the picture, left a long time ago
- Dead?
- Ghost of father
- Son sleeps in Sunday clothes?
- Mystical writing style
- Flows really well
- Sexual connections
- Blood spots on his forehead, as if a woman had been kissing him
- Pleasure in touching yourself
- Ghost women
- "woo strollers"
- Walkers?
- Babies?
- Story about women taking babies?
- Can make herself a goddess
- Multiple suitors
- Steady schedule
- Lies to son
- They are angels?
- Everything is a dream
- His father has been brought back from Heaven
- Pities the women with day jobs
- She has the days to herself with her son
NY Day Women
- Daughter
- Works in advertising office in NYC
- Follows her mother, because she is curious
- Mother
- Old fashioned, very polite to others
- "never shops outside of Brooklyn
- 59
- Likes dentures
- Dad is a taxi driver
- From Haiti
- Nanny?
- Watches a woman's child while she goes out on a run
- Is very wary of Shame
- Why she doesn't tell her daughter
- Never made it to her daughter's parent-teacher conferences
- Doesn't respect her mother or think her advice is valid
- Learns to accept her, by seeing her work for somebody else and make money for the family
Between the Pool and the Gardenias
- Baby
- Left on the curb wrapped in a pink blanket
- "Visions of loveliness"
- Is she alive?
- She doesn't cry
- "Her head fell like any other infant"
- I am very sure this baby is not alive
- Looked the same as she did for three days
- Had to bathe her to keep down the smell
- Narrator
- Women
- gone through miscarriages
- Buries the child
- Relates a lot of things to magic
- She loves the baby because she represents everything she has lost
- Gets close with her mother through prayer
- Lili (from balloon story)
- Killed herself
- Godmother of author
- Son left to go to Miami
- "That voodoo nonsense that's holding the Haitians back"
- Her employers are snotty and rich
- Man sees her burying girl, accuses her of witchcraft
- Weird recurring theme of dead babies
- Why
- This story is very surreal and i ended it very confused
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