Why does Lucy find Mariah so interesting?

How does Lucy react to Lewis's affair?

Why can't Lucy form a lasting attachment with Peggy? Why does their friendship wane?

Why can't Lucy use sex to express intimacy?

Why is Lucy such an angry, jaded person? What does her mother have to do with this?

How is Lucy like her mother? How is she unlike her mother?

To what extent is Lucy truly unable to love others? Why?

To what extent is the book about Lucy's ethnicity?