Faith's Reviews > Memphis

I’ve read much better family sagas. The constant time jumps were irritating. This book is intentionally female-centric, but the male characters are too one-dimensional, either idealized or demonized. I hated the way one character prioritized her ancestral home and heritage over her children. How can a mother move her young daughters into a house to live with the boy who raped one of the daughters? And how could their father, an intelligent, sophisticated man, not have gone to court to stop that from happening?

In the very long Acknowledgments section of this book, the author lists the restaurants that have treated her with dignity. I found that a very odd way to look at the world. Like she is going through life expecting to be aggrieved. That feeling sort of permeated the book too. I doubt that I would read this author again.

I received a free copy of this book from the publisher.