This character appeared in this author’s work from the beginning and still, nearly 75 years later, epitomizes the experience of the stories.

This character wears a sassy black and white coat but sometimes they add daring accessories that reveal their alter egos.

This character’s creator almost gave them a different name, which is hard to imagine, because this character’s name is iconic and just right!

This character possesses a delightful house that they stuff with books and art and other goodies they love.

This may be one of the few characters of fiction that has an entire museum devoted to them.

Do you know who this character is? And who created them? When you have a guess, email Kerri at kmiller@mpr.org.

How do we learn to let go of the mistakes our mothers made?  How do we break the chain of those mistakes if and when we become mothers ourselves?

Sarai Johnson’s new novel  “Grown Women”   asks those questions through the lives of four generations of mothers and daughters.

There is Evelyn, educated, ambitious and, unexpectedly, happily married to a physician; her daughter Charlotte, defiant, rebellious and traumatized; her daughter Corinna, intelligent, loving and happy go lucky until she finds herself pregnant in her teens; and Camille, smart, beautiful and the vessel into which all of the women who have come before pour their hopes and dreams.

Johnson says she had to determine how to cope with the pain of her childhood as she prepared to be a mother.

She wrote: “I decided to try and figure out what it means to move on … or not move on from trauma.”