On page 38 Alice reveals something to us; her mother was an alcoholic. "My mother's pillows when I was little smelled like cherries. It was a sickeningly sweet smell. It was the same way my rapist smelled on the night of the rape. I would not admit to myself until years later that this was the smell of alcohol." Alice's mother and her rapist now have something in common. Drinking. Maybe this foreshadows trust issues with Alice and her mother, or maybe this foreshadows a big tragedy where Alice doesn't want her mother to drink anymore.