Review: Sisterhood has its bounds!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 04 15, 2014
Being one of four girls in my family and the oldest, I think that I understand the sister bond pretty well.  For this reason, I was eager to read this novel and I was not disappointed.  We have a conflicted heroine who has made herself into some sort of martyr without realizing it.  Then there is her sister who is happily established in a marriage that is mutually rewarding and a career that she enjoys.  A cloud hangs over the family in the person of an eccentric mother who, even though her daughters are adults, still sees her family as she did as a very young woman.  The emotional toll that this takes on the entire family is deepened when the happy sister leaves her husband and comes home with no plans or ideas about a future.  Blended into this emotionally moving story is an antique shop where the contents are the "junk" the eccentric mother collects on her trips in the Cadillac, and a pediatric practice where the mothers are the real patients.  In short, there is humor, joy, pathos, and a very real moral in the story.  You will enjoy the journey.