How does Sonya Sones use imagery in One of Those Hideous Books Where the Mother Dies?

Imagery:

"I feel like I've just stumbled through the looking glass into the Whip Logan museum."

"I'm burning up with missing her, as if I'm getting ready to break apart, to just disintegrate - like the space shuttle did over Texas."

"Then the tears rush into my eyes, for the first time in centuries, they come gushing out of me, like a Coke can that's been shaken."