I read this memoir this weekend. This was a the author’s attempt to resolve and understand the Christian Science religion of her parents and her own beliefs. This difference in beliefs caused her to become estranged from her sister and the families of her parents, at times. I was deeply affected by her inability to tell the relatives of her parents about her mother’s illness, which turned out to be terminal. I felt that her father never tried to understand her beliefs or her need to share her mother’s illness with others. It appeared that her mother was a woman who was willing to do whatever her father desired and try to be happy.

I would recommend this book for a book club and feel that the club would could have meaningful discussions about women and their liberation; parents and their children; and an attempt to understand the Christian Science religion.