Description from Amazon.com:
“Three sisters have returned to their childhood home, reuniting the eccentric Andreas family. Here, books are a passion (there is no problem a library card can't solve) and TV is something other people watch. Their father-a professor of Shakespeare who speaks almost exclusively in verse-named them after the Bard's heroines. It's a lot to live up to. The sisters have a hard time communicating with their parents and their lovers, but especially with one another. What can the shy homebody eldest sister, the fast-living middle child, and the bohemian youngest sibling have in common? Only that none has found life to be what was expected; and now, faced with their parents' frailty and their own personal disappointments, not even a book can solve what ails them...”
My Thoughts:
I was not overly impressed with this book. First, the narration is strange. The narrator is a collective of the sisters. So everything is “we.” I never got used to that, and it kept throwing me off. Another area of annoyance were the frequent Shakespeare quotes. They were overdone and didn’t really seem to fit. One redeeming quality was that the sisters were fairly engaging. I could see bits of myself in each one.
Overall, there was just too much going on for me to really focus and enjoy the story.
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