After receiving a call about her mother's sudden death,
Margaret Lansing is left with mixed feelings. Margaret, a
PhD working in Seattle at a pharmaceuticals lab, is worried
about the effect this will have on her estranged sisters,
Rose and Quincy. Margaret is the single and serious older
sister, while Rose is married and a home economics teacher
in Sacramento. Baby sister Quincy, the gorgeous one, lives
free and loose in Las Vegas. All sisters bare a phobia
created by their mother. Their father deserted them as very
small children and four years have passed since their last
disastrous visit with their mother.
Meeting together is cumbersome and awkward for the sisters,
but they set about to make arrangements for their mother's
funeral. Each woman has her own baggage and guilt to
shoulder with memories of their unloving mother. As they
work together to sort through her household goods and
personal items, their outlooks change and they are drawn
together as true sisters. Each reveals their fears and
learns to share in an effort to overcome individual
phobias. Meeting with the attorney reveals a pleasant
surprise for the sisters. This helps them realize that
their mother did not hate them and renews their faith and
confidence, as well as their love, for each other.
This is my first book by Ann Roth, but it will not
be my last. She's written a touching, beautiful story
capturing the unique love shared by sisters. The sisters
learn to share their burdens, fears and dreams with each
other in a very realistic tale of overcoming a less than
perfect childhood. The rejection felt as a child growing
up, and remembered as an adult, is not always as it truly
was experienced.
When sisters
Margaret, Rose, and Quincy Lansing receive the tragic news
that a car accident has claimed the life of their mother,
they must return to their childhood home-and to one
another's company. Although they are shocked and
heartbroken, none of the Lansing sisters is eager to be
back. For the painful memories they thought they'd left
behind have suddenly resurfaced...
But there is also an
unbreakable bond of love.
The Lansings were never a
close or loving family. And each sibling had long ago
found her own means of escape-Margaret into her lab work,
Rose into her "perfect" marriage, Quincy into her acts of
rebellion. So when crisis forces them together again, they
discover that they know as little about one another as
they did about their mother. And in unraveling her
secrets, they find not only revelation, but also strength,
hope, sisterhood, and a chance for love..
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