Review: Tries But Doesn't Succeed
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 10 18, 2011
I had high hopes for this book. It is an interesting premise - a mother who was silent for 20 years begins to speak again after taking a new medicine. The story is told through the viewpoints of her four daughters, who have all suffered in their own way, being unable to talk to their mother all those years.At the end of the book, the reader is still not sure why the mother chose not to speak. The reasons suggested do not seem to be enough for this to happen, although the mother is understood to be mentally ill.The daughters do not seem fully drawn as people. The conversations seem awkward, forced and unnatural. I was so aware that I was reading a book. I never got lost in the story.Although a new medication is credited for the miraculous change, at the end of the book andother reason is given that the mother chose to speak again.Too much of the story did not seem to make sense to me. I did not enjoy it very much.I received a complimentary copy of this book to reveiw it.