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4.0

I picked up this book because it had been recommended to me several times. I was expecting some light “chick lit” but instead encountered a series of vignettes following Jane as she grew up from a 14 year old watching her older brother’s struggles with complicated relationships to an adult with her own struggles. The writing itself is absolutely beautiful.

There was one vignette that I did not understand the point of: the chapter that focused on Jane’s downstairs neighbor and her adult children. A lot of interesting characters and plot points were introduced and then never mentioned again.