There is a strong story in the relationship of the women of this family. I didn’t give it more stars because it I kept forgetting who was who and what had happened to who. It made it difficult to become attached to any one character.
The ending was beautiful though, the image of all her sisters and nieces supporting her at the podium.
“But for the first time, she admitted to herself that she was scared to leave the cacophony of her family’s laughter and bickering and the sunlight and moonshine and enveloping darkness of closing her eyes, and the bright green of the first new leaves in the spring, and the pure white of a first snow before her shoe left its imprint, and the big wonder and warmth of love love love love and yet, we must.”