I loved this book!

Good story. A bit slow and drawn out at times.

Extraordinary writing. The story engages you and keeps you until the end. It is a happy ending for a set of lives that have experienced endless challenge. But that is not the best part, the best part is the extraordinary writing on every page that kept me revelling in the pictures, sents, feelings the author created. I now want to read everything Rachel Simon has written and I feel so fortunate to have found another author to savor.

I agree with all the comments. Ending was a little too pat for me. Hard to believe that after 25 some years all three came together and so quickly. But a good story and I did enjoy it.

too many coincidences and some difficult to believe characters but very interesting setting and issues. eye-opening for me.

This was a novel, so things did work out for a good ending. The type of endings I enjoy! It was a difficult subject but beautifully written.

The story line of this book seemed compelling but I was disappointed to find it was completely implausible. I kept asking myself whether I should keep reading, and did finish it, but didn't believe the ending. Some characters are well drawn, such as Martha and Lynnie, and the story line is interesting. I just wish it could have been told more realistically. Overall, a disappointment.

I didn't love this. It was okay, but was, unfortunately, your typical American-has-to-have-a-happy-ending novel. Really stretched credibility. Did provide an interesting window onto an unfortunate past, but the characters' personal lives were very difficult to believe. One example: at one point, the deaf-mute, Homan, escapes from a church that allegedly heals people's physical ailments and handicaps, with a young man in a wheelchair. They run from the front of the church, up the aisle through lots and lots of people who miraculously get out of their way, out to the parking lot - and somehow, Homan gets the young man, in his wheelchair, loaded into his special vehicle and gets in himself and the young man indicates where the keys are - conveniently, in a purse sitting on the front seat - and away they go, before people come flooding out of the church to stop them. Sorry, don't buy it - no way could he have done all that before someone caught up to them and stopped them. There were a few odd moments here and there, like this one, that just tripped me right up, and I really resent that in a book. I want to be able to keep reading and believing, not stopping and thinking, "No way could that ever have happened."

I absolutely loved this book! Well written and emotionally powerful.

I love this book... beautifully written and a heart wrenching tale about two people who love each other, but have little means of finding each other after they are separated... I LOVED the widow in this book, so strong. I also loved reading through a person with special needs eyes. It's extremely enlightening!