So here we go.

Okay.

Okay.

She wondered what her own mother had made of her.

Had she found any similarities between them? Had she noticed her black curls or her tendency to chew the inside of her lip when she wove and seen it as confirmation that, yes, this one is mine? When they stood together, people sometimes remarked that they saw the resemblance.

But if it hadn't been for the business, she wondered if anyone would know she was Zanetta's daughter.

Her friend Carmina had shaken her head more than once, bewildered that Mira could be so different from her mother.

So what's one thing you learned writing The Water Women that you didn't know before?