Review: Short But Succinct
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 10 8, 2013
I received this from Library Thing to read and review. This is a short story, but one with a powerful message.  We meet three generations: a grandfather, dying of cancer, and a grandmother, wanting but not knowing how, to mend relationships with her daughter; a daughter, feeling the pain of an estrangement from her mother and trying to mend that; and a granddaughter, with children of her own, trying to figure out the dynamic that is going on and how or if she can help. I was amazed at how much could be packed into this rather short story. I understood and empathized with the estrangement, and how things were finally coming together as life progressed toward its end stages. Even the daughter knew things had improved between her mother and her grandmother, somewhat because of her dying grandfather and somewhat because her mother had made the first move towards her mother. Is this the way it really happens?  I guess so. This story certainly left me with hope that it is. The writing is superb.  The characterization is great. All this and such a short story!