There was so much to enjoy about this book. I have spent some time in Pittsburgh so the familiarity of the area was so charming. I loved the way this book was broke into sections and kind of moved across time. The non-linearity of it really kept it from being just a traditional family saga with a beginning middle and ending. I think it also showed the growth of the characters by different sections showcasing different perspectives. With this big of a cast of characters there can be characters that feel as if they get left behind in the shuffle, but that never felt true with this book. You feel so much sympathy for all the characters and they are not portrayed as perfect but trying to love the best ways they can. The portrait of a small town also felt so poignant, a place somehow frozen ten years behind any city, and so insular it both helps and hurts.