paigereitz 's review for:

For My Daughters by Barbara Delinsky
3.25
emotional sad medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

This is a sweet story. But it suffers from lack of diversity, in which the only Black character is the maid to the rich white woman who seems to exist to caretake, and whose adult son is "wayward" because his father left him. It's also very heteronormative. But the story was a nice exploration of complex relationships between daughters and their mother, and healing old wounds, and took place mostly in Maine - which were all redeeming factors for me.