The Sorensons - parents and four daughters - are a loving and complicated family. The daughters are each dealing with their own dramas. Alternating between current day 2016 and the parents’ meeting and relationship from the 1970s to present day, we get to know their situations and internal lives. 

Claire Lombardo writes complex characters and authentic relationships. The issues that caused the daughter’s unrest were realistic and the dialogue believable. Lombardo is an excellent writer. 

Parts of this book made me want to close it - numerous open door sex scenes, and long whiny scenes. Other parts were so true to genuine humanity and relationships that I laughed aloud or wept. Themes of love, parenting, commitment, loyalty, infidelity, adoption, beauty, and joy are woven throughout both timelines. Overall I really enjoyed time with the Sorensons.