fiandaca 's review for:

Winter Sisters by Robin Oliveira

4.0

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I really enjoyed the character Oliveira created--even the despicable ones--to populate late 1800s Albany, NY. The women were strong and complex, especially Dr. Mary Sutter Stipp. And reading about the laws and public perception regarding trauma in that time period was interesting, especially when juxtaposed with another book I was reading at the same time: The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel Van Der Kolk, MD.