I'm slowly discovering things about myself.
I like novels with enough gray zones to drive a truck through, where no one is truly evil, or good, or smart, or aware.
It's more like real life.
This book is about a women who discovers that her life is built on a pyramid of lies, hidden truths that she only uncovers well into her adulthood. She peels away the layers of of the secrets slowly and finds that she actually knew some of them, if only she allowed herself to see.
It is a book about lies we tell ourselves and others, about things we feel we must know for our lives to be complete, and things we discover we wish we never had.
For all those reasons it is a good book. It started off a bit clunky, and I thought I might not like it. In a few places it seemed too obvious, too ordinary, but it picked up speed as it went along. Unfortunately the ending had a twist that took away from the overall genuineness of the plot and characters and really muddied the waters.
Like many of my recent reads, it was worth the time but probably not a re-read.
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