Chapter 18 Summary

Mimi goes straight home after the meeting with confusion still on her face. Leanna and Naomi decide they must be the ones to break the news to Batsheva but Batsheva seems to already know the outcome of the meeting. She doesn't want to know any details. When the other women return home, their daughters are waiting for them. Ilana screams at her mother that Batsheva was helping Shira. She tells her mother that was has happened was the fault of her mother and her mother's friends. Similar conversations go on in other homes. As the women think about what their daughters have said, they realize their children have been looking at them with scorn for quite some time.

After the meeting, it seems that Batsheva and Yosef spend more time together than ever. Batsheva tells Yosef she feels she has been made the...