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Quote #10
She seemed very uncomfortable.
'They have a daughter,' she said.
I stared at her. Then I laughed, suddenly and loudly.
(293.15-16)
Asher has this conversation with his mother because he has reached marriageable age (18 or older) and she wants him to marry a Hasidic girl from another Ladover family. Asher laughs at her because he has rejected his religion and has enough clout as a painter to back his rejection up. Still, rejecting your own mother and background is painful and kind of torturous, as the end of the book demonstrates.