Susan W. (Suz) reviewed on + 721 more book reviews
I will probably give this book my "Best Book I've Read This Year" award (if not the best book I've read in 5 years). The theme is not so original these days: an abusive husband, a battered wife and a terrified daughter.
However, the author weaves their stories together: what binds them together and what drives them apart. What the meaning of family is. How family, while binding us together and making us whole, still leaves a part of us untouched and fundamentally alone. The terrible choices that must sometimes be made at inconceivable cost.
I had tears in my eyes at the end of the book, and I cannot remember the last time that happened to me. And the book keeps coming back to me during odd moments of my day, which is also very uncommon for me. I read all 438 pages in one night even tho I knew I would felt like dirt the next day!
However, the author weaves their stories together: what binds them together and what drives them apart. What the meaning of family is. How family, while binding us together and making us whole, still leaves a part of us untouched and fundamentally alone. The terrible choices that must sometimes be made at inconceivable cost.
I had tears in my eyes at the end of the book, and I cannot remember the last time that happened to me. And the book keeps coming back to me during odd moments of my day, which is also very uncommon for me. I read all 438 pages in one night even tho I knew I would felt like dirt the next day!
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