I read 130 Pages before deciding I'd had enough. The book just seemed to be a little too scattered for me, and not sure who it was really about. Too many minor details, besides being quite depressing, and I just kept feeling like I was reading the same event over and over again, in a way. I get that the whole family is artistic and that it was a terrible waste for her mother to be as she was, but just as the oldest daughter was able to run away and hide from her mother for so many years, I also found myself having trouble sticking around to hear (in great, altho out of sequence, detail) about the younger daughter's dealings with her. Maybe it was the mix of old and new realities mixed with dreams mixed with her mother's wild, random notes (with her daughter's headings added) ... it just didn't quite engage me enough to want to finish. I could tell when I kept thinking of what my next book to read should be as I was reading this one. That shouldn't be happening if I'm really into a book, so I am (somewhat reluctantly) giving up.