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I trudged through this...it was just a really slow read for me. Large Jewish family, centralized on the lives of 3 sisters and told in the perspective of one of the daughters of the sisters. Tragic family accident and how they all cope.

Saturday morning reading ...it‘s been a slow going book for me but not too bad

What a surprise. I never expected to like it as much as I do. This is a multigenerational saga about three sisters in 1948 in Connecticut. The primary setting is at the Connecticut shore. It‘s a tale about the summers the family spends there at a family summer house with glimpses backward and forward in time revealing the trials, tragedies, and loves of the characters. I felt like I was at the shore in 1948. #backpackeurope @JenP @BookwormM

Reading a book set in the place where I was born (Milford, CT) while attending my husband's family reunion 3,000 miles away on the Olympic Peninsula on the completely opposite side of the country. #whenoppositesattract

My first book for #backpackEurope. Really loving it.

Too sunburnt to read on the beach. But this deck chair in a shady corner suits me fine. Flipping to page one... #rubshandstogether

Summer of 1948 and the Syrkin Sisters are all gathered to spend the summer at their shared beach bungalow in Woodmont, Conn. Ada & Viv each married with children and Bec still single hold secrets and resentments ~ when tragedy strikes the frail bond these sisters share will be tested and felt over the years & passed down to the next generation. Strong sense of time, place and Jewish culture/identity - enjoyable read @minkyb @KarenUK

My other book had a little accident ( thanks for the hex @LeahBergen ) so I'm starting a new book today....away from the pool😜have you read it @minkyb @KarenUK I'm only 15 pages in but it's already good

Gets off to a slow start, but the relationships are intriguing. Heavily influenced by a tragic familial accident, characters grapple with guilt and how that alters their lives for the next several decades. Written by one of my former fiction workshop leaders, but I'm only a little biased. :p.

Usually I enjoy a novel that moves back and forth in time. I'm also a sucker for a coming-of-age narrator, historic setting and some Jewish family drama. So this book has all the right components; and it's good, memorable, but it never quite clicked into full gear. A good beach read, but not great.

But such is the way of family: we are what they tell us we are, and part of life's great struggle, it's always seemed to me, is to know oneself despite that imposing collective definition.

Anyone else reading this? It's off to a slow start, but momentum is increasing....

A heartbreaking accident a summer that was supposed to be carefree a group of people whose lives will never be the same.