Helpful Score: 1
Maybe because I'm leaving today to meet family on vacation and am anticipating some sibling drama and whatnot, but this book about multi-generational bonding and bickering had me in love by sentence one: "Once upon a time, there was a woman who discovered she had turned into the wrong person". I love that opening, and not to give too much away, but in the end she realizes the person she turned in to is exactly right.
The story is about Rebecca who as a college co-ed abruptly dumps her betrothed to marry an older divorced man with three daughters and a party business. At first I thought the title refers to how grown up children of divorce tend to be, as that seems to be the case with Biddy, Patch and Nono; ironically they grow up to be rather child-like in their thoughtlessness. But then it's revealed that it was Rebecca and her highschool sweetheart Will who were the grownups in their youth. Anyways, there is long lost love and philosophical musing, laugh out loud funniness, and that back-of-the-throat achiness that comes from holding back tears.
The story is about Rebecca who as a college co-ed abruptly dumps her betrothed to marry an older divorced man with three daughters and a party business. At first I thought the title refers to how grown up children of divorce tend to be, as that seems to be the case with Biddy, Patch and Nono; ironically they grow up to be rather child-like in their thoughtlessness. But then it's revealed that it was Rebecca and her highschool sweetheart Will who were the grownups in their youth. Anyways, there is long lost love and philosophical musing, laugh out loud funniness, and that back-of-the-throat achiness that comes from holding back tears.
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