Aunt Sarah Character Analysis

Aunt Sarah is Emoni’s aunt; she was Emoni’s mom’s sister and lives in North Carolina. Though Emoni has never met Aunt Sarah, the two began exchanging emails a few years before the novel begins, and they maintain a relatively close relationship this way. They most often exchange family recipes. Aunt Sarah is the only person in Emoni’s family willing (and able) to talk about Emoni’s mom, so she’s an important source of information for Emoni. Emoni and Aunt Sarah strengthen their relationship over the course of the novel, and Sarah rallies Emoni’s Raleigh relatives to donate money for Emoni’s trip to Spain. At the end of the novel, Emoni finally agrees to visit Aunt Sarah in person later that summer.