Review: Story from the past
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 04 22, 2014
This was an interesting story of two women living in different parts of the country, one a teenage third wife in a Mormon polygamous household in Utah, the other, a well-to-do woman, well-connected with the politicians of her time, in Boston,  how they connect, and the civil rights movement, the story spanning the years from 1958 through the seventies.Kathryn Dionne and Abby L. Vandiver cowrote the book under the pen name Kathryn Longino, which would account for its sometimes choppy flow, and the occasional clearly different writing styles.  However, this does not really interfere with an excellent story about the two women and of the country itself during those turbulent times.  There are characters to love, characters to feel sorry for, and for those of us old enough to have lived through those times, lots of .... well, I wouldn't call it nostalgia, because Buddha knows those were sad years with the assassinations of JFK, Bobby Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr, Malcolm X, and the disgraceful deaths of many civil rights workers, like Medgar Evers and  James Earl Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael "Mickey" Schwerner, but lot of memories.