By Claire Lombardo
"When Marilyn Connolly and David Sorenson fall in love in the 1970s, they are blithely ignorant of all that's to come. By 2016, their four radically different daughters are each in a state of unrest: Wendy, widowed young, soothes herself with booze and younger men; Violet, a litigator-turned-stay-at-home-mom, battles anxiety and self-doubt when the darkest part of her past resurfaces; Liza, a neurotic and newly tenured professor, finds herself pregnant with a baby she's not sure she wants by a man she's not sure she loves; and Grace, the dawdling youngest daughter, begins living a lie that no one in her family even suspects. Above it all, the daughters share the lingering fear that they will never find a love quite like their parents'." - Goodreads
This is a very long book, 500+ pages, and the pace, interest level, it has its ups and downs. There were times I was very interested and other times I started to lose focus. POV jumps through several members of the family, and a parallel storyline of when the grown daughters are little winds through the book. While it certainly could have been shorter, it was still well written and captures realistic family sagas.
3.5 Stars