" Though I might not go to the Hayward library, I still want to participate in reading the selection for Sally's group. I am reading the book for the second time (though I'd forgotten most of it) and all comes back. I am still in the first part, "Suzette," and am amazed at the skill of the writer who obviously did a lot of research about her family and makes an interesting story of it. The pressure that the poor girl had to endure to choose a man with lighter color as herself, is pityful. I can hardly wait to see how the marriage to the Frenchman turns out. Mathilde. "
— Mathilde, 2/2/2014