the Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
"But was it really like that? As painful as I remember? only mildy. or rather it was a productive and functifying pain. love, thick and dark as Alaga syrup, eased up into that cracked window. I could smell it-taste it - sweet, musty, with an edge of wintergreen in its base- everwhere in that house"
What does this passage above tell the reader about Claudia's home life?