She is intensely dramatic and also strangely hostile to the people who love her the most — her parents.

Parisians, most of them children with strangely adult faces, stand transfixed or walk past each other, engaged in what the urban theorist Jane Jacobs called “an intricate sidewalk ballet.”

It may not have been the traditional way you make a baby, but it still felt strangely romantic.

Instead, “Stickerbush Symphony,” with its strangely melancholic New Age groove, accompanies a level in which the player navigates a fantastically cruel maze of spiky vines.

Still, there are times when their new house feels strangely unfamiliar to her, she says, like an "adopted space" which has not been lived in enough.