by Peggy Roberson
16. December 2011 09:43
A somewhat confusing book about several generations of a family. The book is hard to read because it skips around and is set in multiple times: 1944, 1961 and 2000. It is about a secret and a family living in Blackberry Ridge, a very small town in Minnesota. I did like the characters, Violet, Julia, Alice, Lena, Grace and Jago a lot. Part of the story is about the women in the book, who get jobs at the shipyards and end up welding boats for the war effort. There were many hardships involved in taking on this work.
The more I read, the more confused I became. There are many, convoluted relationships among the characters. Although the men dominated the women during this time, the women were very strong.
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