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Jun 25, 2018tjdickey rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
The characters and the web of their relationships will draw you in - each balances differently on the edge of control over their more volatile side (which is utterly human), and each experiences different paths to negotiate between ideals and reality. The story offers a window onto Shaker Heights (Cleveland), as a poignant suburban incarnation of the exact same tension between ideals and the messiness of human reality. Passion and propriety, the prismatic shifts of adolescent growing pains, the burden of others' expectations upon us, and the numberless facets of belonging to a community, a culture, a family - all smolder within different visions of mother-daughter relationships.