August 9, 2007

  • I loved this book.  It's one of those simple, quiet stories about familial relationships.  For me, those types of stories can either go one of two ways: a bore/cliche or meaningful.  Lawson's book was a page turner and touching. It also made me really glad that I didn't have any siblings! Sometimes a sibling relationship can be extremely complex and drive you up the wall as this book discusses.  When I hear about things like this, I'm somewhat happy that I just have to deal with myself and my relationship with the 'rents. 

    I was surprised to find that the characters were based in rural Canada, albiet a fictional town.  That was interesting to me as I don't recall ever reading a book based in Canada.  Much of the book takes place during WWII and it was eye opening to see how the Canadian were affected and their views on the war as well. 

    Four out of five