Winter Garden by Kristin Hannah

Reading Level: Adult

This is an awakening book about a recently widowed Russian immigrant and her daughters who do not understand her, thought they were unloved, and that she had ultimately kept her two daughters from being close. When her husband died, they felt the family would fall apart. He was the glue that kept the family together. However the younger daughter insisted that they could begin to understand their mom by listening to her tales, the only thing that seemed to turn her into quite a different person during the telling and something their Father encouraged them to do before he passed away. How the tales affect their relationship is a wonderful story and a reminder that our families are multi leveled and we need to be detectives to fully understand each other.

Submitted by Donna