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Summary: Was thought-provoking and affective
Review: Excellent story about what we can take... how much can we endure? At what point do we forgive? What is unforgiveable anyway? A touching story about a woman traveling tos ee her mother after 35 years. Worth a read
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Summary: It Makes You Smile.
Review: If you've ever experienced fond memories of your childhood and disturbing ones, as well, you will definitely appreciate this book. Elizabeth Berg wrote this with profound imagination and a wealth of heart and love.Ginny and Sharla are wonderful as young girls, and they are equally as amazing as adults. The depth of their anger and mistrust to the depth of their forgiveness is a learning experience for these characters, even for the reader. Find a shade tree on a warm fall day. Make sure the breeze is just right, and don't forget that sun tea. Because while you read, you will get mad, smile, and laugh. Most of all you will understand. Enjoy. Joy.
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Summary: If you're a mother or a daughter - this is a must!!
Review: I read this in one Sunday, which I hated to do becuase then it was over! I took many breaks from about half way through to the end because I was so moved I was sobbing...big loud sobs - so glad nobody was home that day. I'm a mother of two daughters and I grew up in the late 50's with a younger sister. I related to so much of the time period that the nostalgia had me calling my sister four or five times. I felt the pain of the girls and the pain of the mother's dilemna. I love everything Elizabeth Berg has ever written, but I have to say this is my favorite - right up there with Never Change - another beautiful tear-jerker. This book spoke to me! FANTASTIC...the problem now -what on earth can I read that doesn't pale after Elizabeth Berg?
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Summary: Brave and Touching
Review: Not an easy read: this one went very deep. Glad I read this.
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Summary: One of Berg's Best (and that's saying a lot!)
Review: I am also surprised to see any negative reviews on this book. I have read all of Berg's books and this is one of my favorites. I love the sister relationship, and found the book a very realistic and touching portrayal of the way women, sisters, mothers/daughters relate. I read it when it was first published and the characters and insights are still fresh in my mind.
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Summary: This book was wonderful
Review: I am amazed that the first review that pops up is incredibly negative, referring to the novel as a "disappointment." I absolutely could not put this book down. Elizabeth Berg has an incomparable way of using nostalgia, harsh realities and stories about people as they truly live to create such real situations and characaters, you think you know them and you definitely care about them. It has been many years since I have read an author who could do this so seamlessly, with such simplicity -- she is an inspiration. And as far as the book being a disappointment, I have read all of her books, and this is my favorite. If you are at all interested in mother daughter relationships, sisterly bonds, life in the fifties and sixties, you will enjoy this book. Don't listen to the professional "reviewers," this book soars.
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Summary: Grabs you with her characters
Review: I don't know how Elizabeth Berg does it but she has such a wonderful way of making you really her characters that you don't want to put her books down, because you care about the people in them. Having read several of her others books (Open House,Durable Goods...) I find her ability to take a simple story and make it a compelling study about everyday people who have problems unlike our own. In this book she examines through the eyes of two sisters the effect thier mother leaving has on them, and on the mother's side how she sets aside her children to "find" herself, in so doing she "loses" them. The only reason I did not rate this a 5 star is I feel it was wrapped up a little too quickly in the end. I think for the scope of pain these gals had experienced at thier mothers abandonment they would not have ended up laughing on the floor together so quickly.
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Summary: Good story
Review: Another good story with interesting characters and a tough topic to deal with: childhood abandonment.
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Summary: What we Keep
Review: A woman by the name of Ginny is going on an airplane to see her mother who she hasn't seen in 40 years. She then starts to tell her story about why she is reluctant to visit her mother. When Ginny was young she and her older sister spent plenty of time together and her mother and father never argued. Then one day a new neighbor moved in next door(she looked like she could have been on the cover of a magazine). Jasmine (neighbor) and Ginny's mother started to hangout a lot and then something happened and the family drasticly started to change.
I liked this book becauseit showed how some families can become. It looks great on the outside, but everythings changing on the inside. Also, it shows how the mother is drifting away, but the two sisters and their father are coming closer together.
My favorite part in the book was when Jasmine's son wyane came into town and Ginny and sharla fought over him because he was so cute. Sharla felt she should get him because she was older and Ginny felt she should get him because she was prettier. In the end Ginny got Wyane. Wyane wanted them to get married and so they did at 12:00 midnight in the woods in the back of Ginny's house.
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Summary: Very good
Review: This is a very good story. It moves you along, you aren't left bored at parts. She tells stories about women better than most...
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