Review: Well Written and Unremittingly Sad
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 03 22, 2014
As depressing as reading a Steinbeck novel, this story is of hopes and dreams smothered by unrelenting reality. Even when the heroine's circumstances are radically altered, the fortune realized and the grand plans for the future are blanketed in the horrible way she has arrived there and the losses incurred along the way. The fantastic tales she once told her ailing sister of adventurous travel and the bliss of freedom from their drudgery will never come to be because of what happened to her and her family along the way and because of the choices she made and others made for her. This is an engaging novel where the reader is made to hope for better all along the journey. The great lesson of the book seems to be that the lack of money may add to one's misery, but great wealth can't satisfy.