This story is about mothers and daughters, how traditions are passed down and defended, and reverse culture shock. The writing is careful and calculated and the narrative has a simple yet effective twist. But I resonated most with how it captures the sense of how jarring it is to return to a place that you used to know--our memories fool us into thinking we know a place, but in the meantime both our perspective and the place have changed. It's not easy to accept a different reality, the disappointment at seeing your past self in a new light, and the idea that your memory was deceived you into believing something that's not entirely true. Perhaps that's why reverse culture shock is so much harder than initial culture shock.