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Fickle yet kind, greedy yet abashed, ambitious yet loving, she is a mass of contradictions. Her family offers little comfort: her father is largely absent, her mother is miserable, her sister is unhappily promiscuous, and her brothers inhabit a separate masculine world. Only her cousin Nini seems to truly see her.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWhen Delia falls into disgrace and then “marries up,” she finds no happiness in the life she has chosen, remaining blind to what was beautiful right before her eyes. 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