At Weddings and Wakes

Rating:
Summary: engrossing family tale
Review: This story is told through the eyes of three small siblings -- two girls and a boy -- who visit their mother's spinster sisters and mother in Brooklyn one weekend a month. The aunts are mysterious and thrilling to the children --- one is a vain alcoholic career girl, the other a cheerful older woman who has finally found love.

The language is dense -- there is not a lot of dialogue to make the story flow -- but it is still an excellent story.