Joelle's last walk (p. 220)
sitting by herself under what used to be her window, the daughter of a low-pH chemist and homemaker from western Kentucky, a lot of fun to be with, normally, if you can get over the disconcerting veil.
Context
Joelle introduced in the flesh — perched in Méliès's fiberglass lap at Molly Notkin's party, planning her overdose — and the veil arrives as a social footnote, the one flagged fact in an otherwise warm capsule biography. "If you can get over" is doing the whole scene's work: everyone at the party has agreed to.