Family Drama

I really thought this was going to be a sad and somber book because of the plot but I was wrong. It was a sweet story about siblings, sibling rivalries (sort of).

Ruthie and Julia were step-sisters who loved each other when they were younger but when their parents died in a plane crash when they were in 7th grade (Ruthie) and Julia (sophomore in high school), they were separated. Julia went to her biological father's house in Tennessee and Ruthie to her father's aunt and her aunt's husband in San Francisco. It wasn't easy for them to be apart but they did and it put a strain on their relationship thanks to Julia's father's wife.

The book went into the future into their growing years. When Julia became an author she wrote a memoir but Ruthie never knew about the epilogue which Julia exposed something about her that almost killed her relationship with her boyfriend that she never told him Then things turned around for their relationship but it tore them apart once again when Julia was writing another memoir that Ruthie didn't want to give her information. In the end, they end up reconciling once again. ( )

This was my first book by Rebecca ---enjoyed as always reading about the South since a native, having lived in Atlanta for many years. I look forward to White's new book--Place at the Table. Two half- sisters from Atlanta who are separated after their parents’ death in a plane crash, having lived with other relatives. If you have a sister, you will love it!

For more than ten years, Naomi and Phil Harrison enjoyed a marriage of heady romance, tempered only by the needs of their children. But on a vacation alone, the couple perishes in a flight over the Grand Canyon. After the funeral, their daughters, Ruthie and Julia, are shocked by the provisions in their will. Spanning nearly two decades, the sisters' journeys take them from their familiar home in Atlanta to sophisticated bohemian San Francisco, a mountain town in Virginia, the campus of Berkeley, and lofts in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. As they heal from loss, search for love, and begin careers, their sisterhood, once an oasis, becomes complicated by resentment, anger, and jealousy. It seems as though the echoes of their parents' deaths will never stop reverberating--until another shocking accident changes everything once again ( )

Interesting story of a bond between sisters, their differences, yet similarities as well as their difficulties of growing up and losing their parents at a young age and being separated from each other.

Julia the older of the two has her quirks about her and defiance's where as Ruthie is quite the good girl in this story. It is difficult for me to describe this one without giving to much away. So therefore I shall say it was overall a good read however I didn't care for the ending to much I actually wanted more. I feel like I am missing out by the story not continuing. ( )

This was a really uneven book... there were parts I really liked, but I almost put it down for good while reading page 32.

If I could do half stars, this would get a 3.5 from me! ( )