I don't have any commentary to add, just a passage from the last prompt I found particularly moving:

> *But it wasn’t just that. She’d also grown religious. She went to the Buddhist temple with my parents—I stayed home—and sat at the base of a twisty tree, meditating. She believed in Jesus, too. She said she was ready to die. It seems like that gave my parents peace, but I always thought she was deluding herself or us or both.*

Found this post through a review from Siobhan Brier: https://siobhanbrier.com/932/review-of-confessions-of-a-vira...

Review is worth reading as well, but you should read the original post beforehand.