I like the way Kristin Hannah writes. She has alot of depth to her characters.
This story is about how broken the lives of two children (now adults) have become due to the Mother leaving them when they were in their teens. One of the (now adult) children, Ruby, carried the belief that if my mother couldn't love me, then no one would love me. So most of her relationships were dysfunctional. Her mother becomes injured and needs care. Ruby comes to take care of her mother. It is a time of healing for both of them. Mom helps Ruby to really see all the facets of people - specifically her but also others. Ruby tended to be very black and white about people - they were either all bad or all good. And most in her life were all bad. She never viewed them as 'human' where they weren't perfect but trying to do their best under difficult situations. Once they became not perfect they were 'bad' in her eyes. And she would walk away from the relationship.
The book talks to forgiveness and to the importance of family relationships. Specifically she speaks to the importance of the mother / daughter relationship.
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