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It took me a while to settle to this novel, which tells the story of a family of women in Indian Mound Mississippi. The story starts with Vivien Walker Moise in 2013 and the discovery of bones on the family property she has returned to after a nine year absence. But who do the bones belong to? Just as I was getting interested in that, it changes to Adelaide Walker Bodine in 1920. When she was ten Adelaide’s mother had jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge. Then it returns to Vivien’s story and a couple of chapters later to Adelaide before the reader is introduced through a diary entry to Carol Lynne Walker Moise. Her entries are interspersed at time through the other two narratives. The connections between this women from the same Walker family are revealed as the reader goes along. I found I could sympathise with Vivien, despite the fact she is a pill popping drug addict. She is not the only one in this story to fall prey to drugs. Adelaide was a lovely character and Chloe, Vivien’s stepdaughter, came across well. Vivien’s ex-husband Mark, has kept Vivien from any contact with Chloe after the divorce because of her pill popping habit which he helped her get into. But is that the real reason or is he just being vindictive? In contrast to Mark is Tripp, who was a childhood friend who fell in love with Vivien at an early age. He has to be the most patient, forgiving person on earth.I enjoyed the setting and some of the dialogue with its Southern expressions, some of which to this Aussie are very amusing. I can’t imagine telling anyone they are ’as fine as frog’s hair.’ One thing that irritated me was the abundance of characters with names all starting with the same letter. Cora, Carrie, Carol Lynne, Chloe, Carol Shipley, Cordelia, Carmen, and Claire. Some are major players in the story, others minor characters but I did wonder why the author had become obsessed with names starting with C. I found it a distraction in the story. Despite that, this story of buried secrets, racism, bootlegging and the Ku Klux Klan got me in. Anger and tears appeared at varying times, which shows I was involved in the lives portrayed. Ultimately this is a story about family, mothers and daughters in particular, and the choices people make for love, even if at times I didn’t understand the choices some people made.
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