What does a family do when the mother commits suicide? Charlotte Bacon explores the lives of the bereaved - the father, the son and the daughter of the Kind family. When the father decides to leave New York and move to Wyoming - his childhood home - we see how his action affects the rest of the family and how each individual deals with grief and acceptance.The landscape and the family are both described in spare and poignant detail. This is one book in which teenagers are portrayed extremely honestly, and their characters are not overblown in any way. The life and ethics of the grandmother who tries to provide a stable family for her widowed son and his children is lovingly described, as are the horses and the land she lives on.
A thoughtful and gently-written book.
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