A review by bethreadsandnaps
The Art of Mending by Elizabeth Berg

3.0

The plot of this novel is almost non-existent. Essentially a middle-aged woman learns from her younger sister that their mother physically and verbally abused the younger sister when they were little, and neither Laura (the older sister) and Steve (the brother) knew. That seems rather implausible, and they had written the younger sister off as being "dramatic" all these years.

It was a slow burn, and the characters weren't as fleshed out as I would have expected for a character-driven novel.