Hardcover, 384 pages
Expected publication: June 6th 2017 by Berkley Books
The New York Times bestselling author of Falling presents a
warm, wise, and wonderfully vivid novel about a mother who asks her three
estranged daughters to come home to help her end her life.Ronni Sunshine left London for Hollywood to become a beautiful, charismatic star of the silver screen. But at home, she was a narcissistic, disinterested mother who alienated her three daughters.
As soon as possible, tomboy Nell fled her mother's overbearing presence to work on a farm and find her own way in the world as a single mother. The target of her mother s criticism, Meredith never felt good enough, thin enough, pretty enough. Her life took her to London and into the arms of a man whom she may not even love. And Lizzy, the youngest, more like Ronni than any of them, seemed to have it easy, using her drive and ambition to build a culinary career to rival her mother's fame, while her marriage crumbled around her.
But now the Sunshine Girls are together again, called home by Ronni, who has learned that she has a serious disease and needs her daughters to fulfill her final wishes. And though Nell, Meredith, and Lizzy are all going through crises of their own, their mother s illness draws them together to confront old jealousies and secret fears and they discover that blood might be thicker than water after all.
My Thoughts…
Estranged
sisters, a self absorbed mother, and a pending death are all happening to the
Sunshine Family.
I almost felt
like this was 4 separate stories that intertwined a little bit. It wasn’t until close to the end that the
stories truly merged. Each of the
daughters was dealing with how their mother treated them while they were
growing up. They seemed unable to move
past their history in their adult lives.
I was unable to connect with any of the daughters although I did feel
sorry for how they were treated by a person who should have nurtured and loved
them.
I probably
shouldn’t have but I felt bad for the mother.
She was dying and was trying to make amends for how she raised her
daughters. She was reliving her past
in just a few short days and knew her time was being cut short without being
able to be a true and good mother to her daughters. I liked that she took the blame on herself
and knew that she owed it to her daughters to try to “fix” them.
The Sunshine
Sisters was an okay read. I enjoyed it
and was invested in finding out if the daughters were able to move on with
their lives.
Thank you
Jessica Mangicaro, Penguin Random House, and Netgalley for a copy of the book
for a honest review.
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