Hope W. (hica) reviewed on 1/15/2010 + 5 more book reviews

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An excellent read! I love how Helen is so obviously devoted to her mother, and at the same time resents her, wants nothing more than to be free of her. It's the perfect story of family obligation, taken to extremes. I could really feel how helpless Helen felt. Alice Sebold did an amazing job conveying the impression that life just rolls on ahead, and it's up to us to struggle to keep up and do what seems best at the time. It also has a lot of back and forth, flashbacks to parts of Helen's life, but since it's told from Helen's perspective, it fits in perfectly and isn't really hard to follow.

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