#5

What We Keep by Elizabeth Berg

Story told on a plane
Summer 1958
Two little girls, but older than their age
A beautiful neighbor moves in next door and you can't help but feel she's the catalyst
mom is unhappy and moves out
the girls world falls apart
the tangled web of love and a bitter-sweet reunion
the past shapes the person we become
it's not as sad as it seems though...can't explain it.
An all-together enjoyable book
I love the way the story bounces between 1958 and the present
I also very much enjoyed how you really got into the narrators mind as a child.
I would read again.

Borrowed from Library
272 pages