What does the narrator realize while visiting her mother's new home in the book, Motherhood: A Novel?

Throughout her visit in her mother's new home, the narrator experiences a series of revelations about her mother's life and her own life. Witnessing the life her mother has made for herself in this house by the sea, the narrator begins to realize that "one could furnish the darkness and put in couches and try to live happily there" (252). Her mother's home indeed helps the narrator imagine into her own future life. Her time there with her mother also fosters a new closeness between them.