ISBN: 9780804114608
Publisher: Random House Publishing
Rating: A
This is the story of Patty Jane and her sister Harriet and the people that become their family along the way. That is truly the best way to summarize this story. There are so many intricate moments, and moments that matter that I would have to re-tell the story in order for someone else to understand.
Lorna Landvik invited me into 1950’s Minnesota, into the lives of Patty Jane and Harriet Dobbin. I fell in love with their sisterly bond immediately as they stole flowers from neighborhood gardens for Patty Jane’s wedding bouquet. There are moments like this one that linger in my mind, but not all of them are happy memories. Patty Jane’s life has been ripped apart by alcohol, and she has lost more than her fair share and experienced more pain than she should in her young life. However, it is what you do to survive those moments that matter and Patty Jane became a strong woman who always thinks of others first. This is truly a novel that demonstrates strength of character.
While reading this beautiful novel I laughed and I cried which now has more of this authors books on MT TBR.
