Each of the siblings makes some pretty questionable choices. Do you think they all redeem themselves in the end?

Each of the siblings makes some pretty questionable choices. Do you think they all redeem themselves in the end?

Without Ellis, I don't know what CeCe would have done. She definitely didn't want to go to jail and even if she'd had the money, Mark was never going to stop blackmailing her.

Not sure about Mance either. Once he pays for the implants and the money runs out, if Henry needs more medical care or if other financial crises emerge, will he go back to working for Shad? Probably.

Tokey is traveling - by herself. Not exactly a great thing for someone who has always been lonely and who has never felt she fit in. Food has been her primary comfort. That may not change.

Junior is also adrift since Simon left him. Not sure about his future either - although he does seem much more confident in who he is.

I actually think there was a lot of redemption at the end. CeCe owned up to what she did and was facing her jail time. She will do her time and move toward a better relationship with her siblings and with Ellis. Junior is learning to be his own man and not meet anyone's expectations but his own. He is learning woodworking with Mance. Mance tried to return Miss Annie's ring at the nursing home but she wouldn't take it back, declaring it wasn't hers but her actions belie that it might have been and she gives Mance permission to keep it. He then goes to Lisha and proposes again, which she accepts. Tokey is facing her own demons and moving forward to seeing the world as opposed to hiding from it. So I think redemption has at least started if not entirely finished.

I love scgirl's summary! The ending felt happier than I expected, but I was not disappointed.

The end is not perfect, but it is satisfying.

A girl summed it up well. All of the siblings ended the story moving toward getting their house in order.

Redemption connotes atonement, actually doing the thing(s) that makes up for the wrongdoing in order to receive forgiveness. The three oldest siblings definitely had things for which to atone. Junior, with his lies to maintain his relationship with his wife and daughters and his job, sought out and continued his connection with Simon. Mance injured and killed various people who harmed and threatened to harm his family and withheld himself from his wife and son. CeCe stole from clients, lived a lie with the proceeds, and sought "cover" through giving in to extortion. But all four of the siblings really needed self-redemption by coming to terms with the realities of their many intergenerational inheritances, the resulting young lives they were dealt and the acceptance of the people they truly were. So redemption? I would say the book left them all well on their way to it and we, the readers, very well satisfied with that.

I'm not sure they were all redeemed.Tokey, at least found out the truth of her parentage. CeCe would not have gone to jail, except that Ellis expected her to. She was still looking for a way out. The men were making their way. But I think they were all on a path to repemption, but not there yet. They were all so damaged. Was it because of King'ssecret about their mother??

I'm not so sure the word I would use is redemption. I think each of the siblings were busy throughout the book finding out/ getting in touch with "who they are" and perhaps redemption might come later.

I think they all try. There is hope for all of them in the end.

I think a girl summed up my feelings very well.