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A review by illstoptheworldandreadwithyou
Everything Must Go by Camille Pagán
4.0
This one is alternately heartwarming and heartbreaking as you see things through the eyes of Laine, who is simultaneously yearning for a child of her own, trying to decide whether or not to divorce her husband, and coming to terms with her mother’s declining mental state, and Sally, the matriarch of the Francis family, as she deals with the early stages of dementia.
Laine, who found that she received the most attention growing up when she was cleaning and organizing her family home, continues to find value in being useful as an adult. She persists in being a people pleaser and peacemaker and itches to clean up everyone else’s messes while struggling to balance her own needs.
This is women’s fiction with warring themes of how much of yourself you should commit to others versus what you owe yourself. There are some friends-to-lovers and second chance romance tropes thrown in.
With the way things were trending in the book and the different personalities in the story, I was a bit surprised with how neatly things wrapped up in the end.
Content warnings: divorce, parental abandonment (past), Alzheimer’s and dementia, deceased parents, affair (past), grief, familial obligations
Thank you to Lake Union Publishing and NetGalley for an ARC in exchange for my honest review.
Laine, who found that she received the most attention growing up when she was cleaning and organizing her family home, continues to find value in being useful as an adult. She persists in being a people pleaser and peacemaker and itches to clean up everyone else’s messes while struggling to balance her own needs.
This is women’s fiction with warring themes of how much of yourself you should commit to others versus what you owe yourself. There are some friends-to-lovers and second chance romance tropes thrown in.
With the way things were trending in the book and the different personalities in the story, I was a bit surprised with how neatly things wrapped up in the end.
Content warnings: divorce, parental abandonment (past), Alzheimer’s and dementia, deceased parents, affair (past), grief, familial obligations
Thank you to Lake Union Publishing and NetGalley for an ARC in exchange for my honest review.