While reading through the beginning, sample pages, the reader is given hints of the scandals to come. The start of the book begins a slow, well written meander through Southern landscape and lifestyle. Being from a Southern family myself, I relate to the grandmother and her attempt to hold onto the older ways (not that I do, but I have been exposed to elderly Southern ladies when I was young).
Questions begin to develop in the reader's mind early.......what could possibly cause the complete separation of an entire family? Though flawed, there does seem to be love between the family members. Due to this separation, our narrator has become a lonely, career oriented adult who has had nothing do with her family for years. She doesn't realize that there are huge holes in her life due to past occurrences and her decisions. Will her family become more unified in adulthood by the end? Will she find a bit of romance (sorely lacking in her current life) in a big, Southern mansion? I can't wait to finish reading this novel to find out.
Questions begin to develop in the reader's mind early.......what could possibly cause the complete separation of an entire family? Though flawed, there does seem to be love between the family members. Due to this separation, our narrator has become a lonely, career oriented adult who has had nothing do with her family for years. She doesn't realize that there are huge holes in her life due to past occurrences and her decisions. Will her family become more unified in adulthood by the end? Will she find a bit of romance (sorely lacking in her current life) in a big, Southern mansion? I can't wait to finish reading this novel to find out.