Linda Smolkin

Thanks to the author and Goodreads.

I found this book very emotional and hardly got through it without crying in a lot of places. The sadness that Elsa held inside of her with her brother's death at age 4, when she was 10, her mother's disassociation with her because of this throughout her life, until the day her mother died living with her, the death of her husband Max, from a freak accident. Then there was her daughter Laura who was in her 20's who moved to Russia to live and teach and Elsa's not being able to let go of her daughter and "ran to Russia" 3 times, once to tell her about her brother Michael's death. Why couldn't she do it after all these years? I have no idea but flying to Russia to do it was not the place in my opinion and then ended up flying back to Washington, DC, where she lived because Laura was upset that she didn't tell her sooner. The 3rd time she went back to Russia was because Laura was attacked (slashed on her cheek). Crazy!

In the end, Elsa got her act together, sought help for her insecurities of not letting go of the past, and found love finally.… (más)