Nancy Jensen

It was an easy enough read 300 pages but I finished it in a day. It didn't wrap up pretty and neat which although I complain about in every book that does that I also find myself complaining when it doesn't do that. In my head it eventually wraps up neater than the author left it. There were some relationships in it I wish had been explored more in depth. I liked all the sisters even the entirely disfunctional ones but I do wish one set of sisters had atleast somewhat of a healthy relationship with each other. I don't have sisters but I like to hold out hope my girls wont be as messed up as all the sisters were in this book.… (mehr)

This novel about sisters starts in Juniper, Kentucky in the 1920's with Mable and Bertie. Through a series of miscommunications, bad luck and stubbornness the sisters separate. The reader hopes for the sisters to reunite throughout the story. The novel follows the lives of the sisters through several generations and the lives that the sisters live are very radically different from one another. It is not a hopeful story of sibling relationships. But is does show the toll that one wrong decision can take on a relationship.… (mehr)