Although my grandmother lived out her long life in the shadow of rainy mountain immense landscape of the continental interior ladylike memory and her blood what is the effect of the figurative language in this sentence

The quote "Although my grandmother lived out her long life in the shadow of rainy mountain, The immense landscape of the continental interior lady like memory in her blood." is excerpted from the the book, "THE WAY TO THE RAINY MOUNTAIN by Pulitzer Prize". The effect of the figurative language used in the sentence is that it depicts the Aho's deep knowledge of her people’s history, and shows how much she was connected to the history of her people.