The family's singing is romanticized, but Maria reveals that one daughter had extreme anxiety about performing

--which are sweet yet barbed, full of acceptance and imperfection, and never cloying or verging on "romantasy

Just when I was beginning to wonder whether her life in a brothel was being too romanticized, the various

Her self-reliance, romanticized ideas, quick thinking, and strength of character, along with the shifts

Her soaring hopes of human contact, her vulnerability and romanticized ideas--and then her growing doubts