Review: Enjoyable but...
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 01 28, 2014
Really enjoyed the book, and, yes, it is fiction, so I suppose some should be unrealistic. Endearing family life. Mother and child relationships were entertaining. The author lost me with the all too amiable relationship between divorced spouse and her gay former husband and his partner. That has not been MY experience in the 2 friends' marriages I watched broken up by the departure of a gay spouse. Children devastated and much animosity from the gay couple toward the former spouse. Sorry, there was just no evidence in the book that anybody had to come to grips with anything. Almost seemed like an attempt to paint the situation as rosy, normal and even preferable. I teach these children and this is far from the case. Their lives are shattered.