How does Suzanne Selfors use imagery in Coffeehouse Angel?

Examples of Imagery:

"The woman who had worked with us each and every day, who had filled our stomachs with wonderful soup, who had filled the shop with the aroma of freshly baked krumkake and had become part of my family, had killed my parents"

"If people could melt like ice cream, that's what would have happened—Millie would just be a big puddle of rocky road. As Malcolm stepped off the bus his kilt slipped up his thigh - muscular, just like his calves. Millie patted her hair, smiling as if she'd been sipping Lars's whiskey."