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Wasn't the best book I ever read, but it wasn't bad. It pretty much held my interest. It's just that it didn't seem real, almost like la-la-land, with too many ups and downs like a roller coaster.
HATED the mother in the very beginning for disowning her daughter. Daughter seemed way too sweet to be real, with this perfect career and this perfect boyfriend and this perfect vacation and this perfect schedule that allowed her to take a month or two off at this perfect lake-side get-away cabin, but ...more
HATED the mother in the very beginning for disowning her daughter. Daughter seemed way too sweet to be real, with this perfect career and this perfect boyfriend and this perfect vacation and this perfect schedule that allowed her to take a month or two off at this perfect lake-side get-away cabin, but ...more
Men, put this book down.
Don't you see? It says "Sisterhood"...right there on the cover.
For women only, but, for us, a delightful read.
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Don't you see? It says "Sisterhood"...right there on the cover.
For women only, but, for us, a delightful read.
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This is a very good story about the complicated lives of four women in the 40's and 50's in the South, told through the eyes the daughter of one of them, who has problems relating to her mother who is one of the original Ya-Yas. As the story unfolds, the reader gets glimpses into the hard lives that all three generations of women have had in the past, and that have shaped their lives in indelible ways that affect their whole families. On a simple level, it is about the relationship between a mot
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