Title: what was the point?
Product review: The way I judge if a book was worth the time and effort I put into reading it, is how the book made me feel at the end, and what it taught me. This book did not teach me much. THe characters were there, but they weren't really there. I didn't get the personal relationship feeling that makes me care about the characters. When I finally finished the book, I had to ask, what was the point of that? This was the first book I read by Sue Miller, and it will probably be the last. I didn't understand why Eli would have suddenly decided to confess what he did. He went 30 years without anyone suspecting him, without anyone asked him about it. And he suddenly has the urge to get it off his chest...yeah right. Then there are Jo's daughters. They are all very different from each other, but very socialy stereotyped characters. And almost to offset Jo's behavior, the husband is a pastor. The characters barely fit together.
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