Helpful Score: 2
For me the writing style of this book was a little bit hard to read. But the content was good. This is a good story about the love and friendship between two women. It really does show that no matter how different your lives are you can always find common ground. There is always a way to move around differences, and find friendship.
I'm a little torn on this one. I generally liked it, but I felt there were some loose ends after finishing the book that made me wonder if I missed something or if the writer just got lazy at the end. I found the friendship between these women to be a bit alien, I guess they kept coming back to each other for a reason but it didn't seem like a deep friendship in the way I'm used to friendship. Both women had a great deal of baggage, which I think made it hard for them to let themselves go and trust each other. It was interesting and written reasonably well, but for some reason I feel like I didn't get as much as I expected from it.
This is subtitled A Novel of Friendship, and it did nicely capture the ebb and flow of a new relationship as it develops between two women in middle-age where both are emotionally damaged and one is passive aggressive and the other has the patience of Job. The characters have interesting cultural backgrounds - both Swedish, one having immigrated from Pinochet's Chile. To be honest books about food and gardening bore me, or I would have given this another star.