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Mar 05, 2010
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Nina and Meredith's mother was not close to her daughters when they were young, and now that her husband, the girls' father, has died her daughters are trying to manage the family's apple orchard and care for their aging mother. As children, the girls remember a fairy-tale, partially told, that seemed to enrage their mom. Their mother immigrated to the states when Russia was at war. Those traumatic memories may have been reason for not wanting to get close to the girls, but there are more secret
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I think this started off slow and I thought it was very strange. What kind of mother pushes away her children? As I got more into the story i didn't want to stop reading. I was glad that Anya was able to finally get through the fairy tale and make her daughters understand what she had been through as a Leningrad survivor. Some parts of the story were heart breaking and unimaginable. If only she had found Stacey a year earlier and could have been reunited with her Sasha. But, it was still a great
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I loved this book and would probably give it 4 1/2 stars. This is the story of 2 women learning to love their mother after the death of their father. As they grew up their mother was always distant and cold to them. The only time she showed love was at night in the dark when she told them a fairy tale, which she never seemed to finish. After the death of their father, both women face life changing events. They learn that it is never too late to love and that some things are not really as they se
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