the last book I ever read (David Plante's Difficult Women: A Memoir of Three, excerpt fourteen)

from Difficult Women: A Memoir of Three (New York Review Books Classics) by David Plante:

At our Thursday luncheon in the Greek restaurant Germaine said to me, “You like difficult women, don’t you?”

I said in a Tulsan accent, “I guess I do.”

“Well then,” she said, “I’ll introduce you to my mother.”