Daughters For a Time
Jennifer Handford
Fiction
First, let me just get out of the way
the two little nit-picky things that took me out of this book: the part when
the main character thinks about how she has to watch the episodes of a soap
opera, Guiding Light, that she’s recorded (GL was canceled in 2009 and I’m
pretty sure this book is supposed to be taking place during present day) and then
when she makes a crack about having to restock the salad bar at Olive Garden
(I'm sad to report that I know Olive Garden most certainly does not have a salad bar). Besides those two
errors, this was a decent book. Decent, but not great.
Helen is thirty-five and married, and
more than ready to be a mother. But when her infertility causes yet another
miscarriage, her husband suggests they try adopting in China. Helen eventually
agrees and they travel abroad to get their daughter, Sam. Once back home, Helen’s
still adjusting to being a mother when her older sister announces she has the
same cancer that killed their mother. Now Helen must be there for her sister
and figure out how to keep her family together during this time of crisis.
I was a bit “meh” on this book. While
I understood Helen’s motivations and fears, she still bugged me a lot. Also,
Helen was terrified of how she’d adjust to being an adoptive mother, but as
soon as she gets home, everything seems to be fine. It’s like two different
novels patched together: the first is about adopting, the second is about losing
her sister. I just thought the story could have flowed better.
For anyone who has adopted, especially
overseas, you’ll probably like this book.
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