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This is a slow burn of a story full of complex characters. First is Elena Richardson. Elena is the “perfect” suburban mom of 4, with the successful husband and big house in the suburbs. But Elena struggles with her relationship with her youngest daughter, Izzy, who can’t help but fall short of Elena’s rigid expectations of her. On the other side is Mia Warren, the
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I thought this was a solid read that was maybe a bit over-hyped. Also, if you have difficulty reading about abused children, this may not be for you. The story starts out in 1952 with 6-year-old Kya watching her mother walk away, never to return. Before long, the rest of her siblings follow, escaping the wrath of their ne’er-do-well drunkard father. Kya is abandoned by
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For the Miller family, mo’ money definitely equals mo’ problems, because after patriarch Paul’s stock options make him an obscene amount of money, he quickly files for divorce and runs off with wife Janice’s tennis partner. He then disappears for most of the book, but that one decision has wide-reaching ripples. The Miller women are a mess. Janice, caught unaware by Paul’s decision, begins soothing
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I normally do not gravitate towards books that are centered around mythology or folklore, but my book club was reading this and I’d heard such great things about it that I decided to give it a fair shake. Circe is the daughter of a god (Helios) and a nymph. She is often scored by her family and others in her home because she’s just a
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