Search - What We Keep

In What we keep I found the context both unsettling and sad. This book is different then a mushy romance or a great mystery. This has happened in someones life somewhere.
That shame and pride would and could do this to a family is reality based. I would say that this book is well worth the time and effort it took to read it. I enjoyed it a lot.

How does she do it? She can get inside people's heads with such accuracy. This story rings true from page one to the end, and it is the kind of read you just can't put down. Forget sleep - read What We Keep!

I read about 6 chapters and couldn't get involved in it.

Author does a good job of depicting what it was like to grow up in the '50s. A wouman in her 40's is traveling to see the mother she has not seen in 35 years and while on the airplane she travels the road of her own memories. Well written, realistic about the mother and daughter and sister to sister relationships, weaves in the levels of unspoken secrets a family can keep. Moves forward so well it was hard to put down.

Okay but ending very typical and not realistic. All works out too well and pat.

ok