Where the Light Enters

Where the Light Enters by Sara Donati
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

To begin, do not read this book unless you have read the first book of the series. You will soon find yourself lost trying to keep all the characters and their relationships straight. Next, the book is outrageously long--the author claims to like long books and she has produced one--652 pages! If not loaded with too many issues--racism, feminism, poverty, mental illness, abortion, 19th century morality--a book this long is not a bad thing. This book is loaded with issues that become overwhelming. Life fraught with so many things to worry about seems to lose the importance of comparatively smaller issues such as widowhood, marriage, pregnancy and the treatment of orphans, who are part of the extended family of the two women about which the story revolves.

It took forever to get into the book, forever to finish it and less of an enjoyment than a chore, Do not know if reading the Gilded Age before this would make it any more satisfying. This is a review of a copy provided by Book Browse for discussion in their book club.

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