How we cite our quotes: Chapter.Paragraph
Quote #10
"I don't honestly think she remembered. Not you, not my grandfather, not any of it consciously. It had all become a fairy tale for her. She must have told us the story of Briar Rose a million times. But it was all there, buried." (32.42)
Becca thinks of Gemma's fairy tale as a type of coded memory. This matches up pretty closely with how scholars think of folk tales and fairy tales as collective memories of people who lived in a particular time and place. Cool, huh? (Aside from the trauma part, we mean).