Jane D. (4JaneC) reviewed on 4/19/2009 + 51 more book reviews

Helpful Score: 6

This book starts out "I didn't like my mother. and I certainly didn't love her. I know she didn't like me either. I can't say whether she loved me, as I don't remember her ever telling me so." This is the first hand telling of a mother/daughter relationship that is painful to read. Misunderstandings and missed opportunities abound. As both a daughter and a mother of girls, this is telling of a story I don't want to live even through a book. It is a story of pain and hurt on all sides. For all that, it is a very compelling story that was very well written. I did not realize that it was Alyse Myers first book until after I had read the entire book and was looking at the back cover. It did leave me feeling very melancholy.

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