Winter Garden by Kristin HannahWinter Garden was recoginized by serveral publications in 2010 including RT Reviewers" Choice Award in the Mainstream Fiction category. The title was also listed on the New York Times Hardcover Fiction Best-Seller list for several weeks.
This book is also available as a WMA audiobook through the Greater Phoenix Digital Library
Summary
Reuntied when their beloved father falls ill, sisters Meredith and Nina find themselves under the shadow of their disapproving mother, whose painful history is hidden behind her rendition of a Russian fairy tale told to the sisters in childhood. Novelist
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Publishers Weekly Review
Female bonding is always good for a good cry, as Hannah (True Colors) proves in her latest. Pacific Northwest apple country provides a beautiful, chilly setting for this family drama iginited by the death of a loving father whose two daughters have grown apart from each other and from their acid-tongued, Russian-born mother. After assuming responsibility for the family business, 40-year-0ld empty-nester Meredith finds it difficult to carry out her father's dying wish that she take care of her mother; Meredith's troubled marriage, her troubled relationship with her mother and her mother'sincreasingly troubled mind get in the way. Nina, Meredith's younger sister, takes a break from her globe-trotting journalism career to return home to do her share for their mother. How these three woman find each other and themselves with the help of vodka and a trip to Alaska competes for emotional attention with the story within a story of WWII Leningrad. Readers will find it hard not to laugh a little and cry a little more as mother and daughters reach out to each other just in the nick of time. (Feb) (c) Copyright PWR LLC. All rights reserved
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