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Apr 01, 2015Eosos rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
I like the meandering style of this family story. I was rather partial to the story gaps, where chapters would start 2-9 years later and you are left to catch up on what had happened and what was happening. I found it an enticing way to read a story. The almost never judgmental love that is portrayed in the story is a nice change from the often dysfunctional families in so many books. I also like how, for the most part, the entire story focuses on the people in the family. Not on the changing world around them or even how those changes are effecting them. It's just about family dynamics through 50 years of love, tragedy, marriage, divorce, death and children.