Schemes and Dreams

What was Nancy thinking with that display? Showing up to a packed club full of Mimi's fans and admirers and trying to humiliate Mimi? How did she think that was going to go down? She's so embarrassing that I almost feel bad for her, but the hateful words she was spewing make me feel nothing but contempt. How deluded is she? I have to say I laughed in complete shock at the images of her and Malcolm getting struck by lightning outside the club - talk about divine intervention!!

The conversation with Malaika was very sweet, how she's taken Mimi under her wing, and that line about how women have never been kind to Mimi pulled at my heartstrings - how sad and lonely and confused they must have felt while growing up under Nancy's regime, it can't have been easy for any of her children to cope with her if she's as dreadful all the time as she showed herself to be in this chapter, but it must have been especially rough for a child coming to terms with their gender and identity. I'm so happy that Mimi has found themselves a solid support network of loving friends - a found family!