Took me a bit to get into this story. It covers a few days in the life of three out of a group of four women, who come together to clean out the home of their recently deceased friend. My initial reactions were that the characters were old & annoying. It was their behaviors towards each other, their stuck-in-their-ways beliefs, the imagined hostilities & unspoken feelings, which ultimately stood between them, creating unnecessary friction. The back described it as “excruciatingly funny”, but I’m not sure what part they were referring to.

I guess the thing I took away from this book, after all the rest, was the importance of the friendship to each of the women, despite their history. At the end of the day, it’s the people you have around you that get you through. We all need our tribe, whatever imperfect shape or size they come in.