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A review by dashausfrau
The Art of Mending by Elizabeth Berg
3.0
Author is very deft with the fun family traditions and using photographs for the flashback memories. I also appreciate her understanding of complexity in humans understanding themselves, let alone others, her accurate depiction of the interaction (& sometimes blindness) between siblings, and sympathy even for the most guilty person in the family, which I'm sure most readers (me included) do not want to feel.
The takeaway for me was that the drawn out (50 years) piecing back together of a child / self might be avoided if people didn't work so hard to conceal things that should be out in the open.
The takeaway for me was that the drawn out (50 years) piecing back together of a child / self might be avoided if people didn't work so hard to conceal things that should be out in the open.