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The Art of Mending – Elizabeth Berg
Book on CD read by Joyce Bean
3.5***

An annual family reunion at the Minnesota State Fair begins a journey of reckoning with the past for Laura and her siblings, Caroline and Steve, when her sister makes a shocking allegation.

I love how Berg writes about family dynamics. Her characters are adults and, for the most part, they act like it. They ponder, discuss, act, react, and find ways to cope with whatever life throughs at them. There are scenes of great tenderness and scenes that are difficult to witness. I sometimes felt as off-kilter as Laura when confronted with an unspeakable truth.

Ultimately the siblings will join together to confront their shared past and work to move forward, with reckoning, forgiveness and love.

Joyce Bean does a wonderful job of narrating the audiobook. She brings Berg’s words to life.




LINK to my review