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I'll definitely be joining for the Consequences! I have that book on my shelves already.

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1. I think because the novel was written in abrupt fragments and you had glimpse of all three sisters, I found myself really pulled into the novel. I wanted to keep reading to keep getting more glimpses into their story. I hate to say I did sort of feel disappointed I didn't get more, but I do think that might be a compliment. The author wrote such a compelling book that they made me want to know more about their characters.

2. I found myself thinking a lot about my own childhood while reading this book and asking myself, what would I tell, what do I remember. I know that I could immediately tell about all the bad memories I have. The moments of trauma I endured but I don't know that I'd be able to fold in the happier ones or the more mundane ones? I think I'd have to really sit down and think about it. Which is why I think the author created really full characters - ones that laugh together and surivive together. The book itself though sad at times, felt like love.

3. Uffff the need for belonging somewhere and loneliness, I felt the strongest in all three characters and I connected the most to both needs. I think navigating the two go hand in hand - you are lonely because you dont feel that you belong somewhere. In this story, because I felt so connected to the idea of loneliness, I missed how the sisters belonged to each other and the freedom in that, even though they were only children bearing the responsibility of filling in "belonging" for the adults the werent able to provide that.

4. I think the ending hit the closest to home for me. Not that I don't have a relationship with my brothers as adults now but it was the sense of not knowing them and that separation of who we were when we were children, to who we've become as adults - strangers to each other for sure. I was sad to read about that drift between the sisters and though I don't share the same experience, it was the feeling of it that felt familiar.

5. YES! I wanted healing to look like sisters that keep in touch, sisters that are in each others lives, sisters that you see all the time. But I know real healing isn't a fantasy, its not a destination, its a forever journey and after hearing the author say that about the ending - I found a deeper understanding for the characters and the novel as a whole. The love these sisters shared was found in their own individual paths of healing. In their love for each other despite.

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