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This book is very easy to start and can become very engrossing. However, about midway into the book, it becomes burdened in descriptions of past and present and plot lines that sometimes become confusing and difficult to follow. I began to lose patience with the main characters. I wanted Avie to stop coddling her mother and I wanted her mother to quit being so demanding. It made me angry that the other sisters would not help take care of their ailing mother. It was difficult to finish after that and I skimmed the last third of the book. Not one of my favorites.

Avie Goss is a 'change baby', a baby born to her mother late in life. She has been born almost a generation after her two siblings and truly cannot find her own place in her family. When her mother almost dies in a house fire, Avie returns home to the peaceful Southern lifestyle that she strove to leave behind forever after college. As she cares for her ailing mother, Avie begins to unravel the story of who she is and to discover the secrets of a disappearing picture of life as it used to be. Slowly, as she uncovers her family's legacy, she begins to build a new life for herself in a landscape with which she must come to terms.

I enjoyed this book and as I said, June Spence is a new author for me. I had started this story a few years ago and put it aside after reading a couple of pages. Don't let that scare you though, I really enjoyed this book and give it an A+!

Could not get past the first chapter - it was horribly written and downright confusing right from the start.