In she blunders, trying to be helpful and hoping to forge a connection with her granddaughter, but she is challenged by Vivien's old friend Chloe, an ex-girlfriend of the widower who seems keen to step into the dead woman's shoes.
Last year, Mertilla Jones drew a connection between her granddaughter's death and that of black teen Trayvon Martin, who was unarmed when he was shot by neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman in Florida.
Their granddaughter, Sylvie (Savannah Lathem), the one connection they have to their dead daughter, visits them on occasion but doesn't particularly relish her time there.
I related to Naumann that the current Italian Fascists are not quite neo-Fascists, as they claim; they are forced by Italian law to deny any connection to Mussolinian doctrines and deeds, but Mussolini's granddaughter is one of the leaders of their party.
But Mum is delighted that her only son and her first granddaughter were born on the same day; she sees it as an auspicious connection and as we take a walk, baby in sling, in the spring sunshine, it reminds her of how proud and happy she felt showing off her newborn son in his Silver Cross pram.
"We made a connection," said Sean Gibson, who carries the surname of his mother, Josh Gibson's granddaughter.
A spectacular €100 million, or $127 million, burglary at the Paris modern art museum in May and the trial next month of three men in connection with an audacious heist at the Left Bank apartment of a Picasso granddaughter have laid bare how susceptible the keepers of great art are to the efforts of seemingly meticulous thieves.
The British poet Ruth Padel, a favorite to be named the Oxford Professor of Poetry this spring, is Charles Darwin's great-great-granddaughter, though for much of her life she has preferred not to dwell on the connection.
This was the era known as "Wild Capitalism", when there were bargains a-plenty, especially for those with the right connections, like Mr Gyurcsany.Klara Dobrev, Mr Gyurcsany's third wife, is the granddaughter of Antal Apro, a minister during Hungary's darkest Stalinist era.
Gary Giddins (who writes about jazz for The New Yorker) provides an introduction (along with a droll story of his connections and disconnections with the grande dame), and Nadine de Koenigswarter, the author's granddaughter, contributes a moving biographical tribute.
"Why?" her granddaughter asked.
