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The Art of Mending
by Elizabeth Berg
Another lovely book to read and learn from. A sensitive story of a woman, a mother and her families dynamics. Her loss and the repercussions of a life in the mist of a normal dysfunctional family. The family of a good husband, son and daughter and the haunting abuse of her sister by the hands of their mother upon her father's death. It was mainly of the story of the sister's emotions and the protagonists relationship to that. She was aggravated by her sister, then came to understand her as well as herself.
The Mistresses Daughter
by A.M. Homes
Here is a personal account by a well known novelist and her experience with her real father and mother and her obsession to find out more about them. It is her autobiography. She is clearly revealing in her personal experience, her deep feelings and reactions. I thought many times about how she had the last word in a revenge as to how she was treated by others - her family. Her father was a complete jerk, his wife too. This is the wife who had no cause to even meet this daughter, a daughter as a result of her husband's affair with a much younger woman, a young woman who was in the employ of this man. What a cruel and selfish man. More than a autobiography, it is a meditation of a woman's life with the challenges of being a daughter of a mistress and man.
Family Tree
by Barbara Delinsky
This book was wonderfully entertaining, finally a book I can get into after a few bad ones. This was a story about a lovely couple who has a baby but the skin of the baby is much darker than each others skin. A mystery ensues with accusations of infidelity through out the family. A little Christian in tone but I liked the bit of mystery and the character of the protagonists were sensitive and real.
