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3.5***
An annual family reunion at the Minnesota State Fair begins a journey of reckoning with the past for Laura and her siblings, Caroline and Steve, when her sister makes a shocking allegation.
I love how Berg writes about family dynamics. Her characters are adults and, for the most part, they act like it. They ponder, discuss, act, react, and find ways to cope with whatever life throughs at them. There are scenes of great tenderness and scenes that are difficult ...more
3.5***
An annual family reunion at the Minnesota State Fair begins a journey of reckoning with the past for Laura and her siblings, Caroline and Steve, when her sister makes a shocking allegation.
I love how Berg writes about family dynamics. Her characters are adults and, for the most part, they act like it. They ponder, discuss, act, react, and find ways to cope with whatever life throughs at them. There are scenes of great tenderness and scenes that are difficult ...more
First, I love Elizabeth Berg and will continue to read everything she writes, but this one left me cold. I do not want to make light of the drama of any kind of child abuse, but as Laura's husband, Pete said, (paraphrasing) every family has something. How Laura reacts years after the abuse is over-the-top and a bit dramatic. What does she teach her children by eliminating family from their lives based on something that happened years ago and even to someone else? Let's hope this character never
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Soap opera and Oprah tropes.
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