Book Review - My Sisters by Ann Roth

The Lansing Sisters aren't close; they don't even know each other's phone numbers. But, when a car accident kills their mother Susan, they return home to bury her and pack up their past.Margaret, Rose and Quincy Lansing couldn't be more different, the only thing they have in common is how much they disliked their mother. Carrying the scares from their unhappy childhood they've each become uncommunicative solitary adults. Margaret has retreated into her lab work with no hope of finding a man. Rose is treading on thin ice in her marriage, and Quincy will give her body to any man with a smile. And so begins the journey of three sisters finding themselves amidst a personal tragedy.Susan Lansing, their mother, was not a kind woman. She had no time for her three daughters, and resented their father for leaving them so many years ago. This is the mother all three sisters remember; too busy and too bitter to be kind or caring. While going through their mother's belongings and receivi
ng condolences from neighbors and friends they come to discover she was quite another person and she wasn't what they always believed her to be. Her marriage to their father isn't what they once thought it was. The very fabric that has created who they are and how they live their lives gets torn down as they dig deeper into their mother's past and as a result their own lives begin to unravel.This is a story of finding oneself through the loss of a parent and a love for one's sisters that had been forgotten. The author creates every reason for the sisters and the reader to despise Susan. As a reader you're not sure these sisters can ever be close, but as they discover the truth about themselves, they also discover a love for each other.My Sisters, is a well written novel, with a realistic point of view on relationships and family. I found myself caught up in the story until the end, when everything wrapped up a little too neatly. However, the author's development of each char
acter keeps you reading until the last page.

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