A review by a_r_e_l_i_c
Praisesong for the Widow by Paule Marshall

4.0

23 shower of scented dust
37 cool resinous smell of the pines
43 soap & asafetida
149 curdled milk & stale Johnson’s baby powder
150 staleness of flesh in slept-in clothes
166 seldom worn clothes & yeasty breath
190 blood
197 scented with mother’s cologne
215 slight mustiness of closed unused rooms
221 faint cool smell of limes on the air