Eileen Tumulty’s upbringing in Queens in the ‘40s was dominated by playing caretaker to her drinking Irish parents. She dreams of a better life and thinks she finds it when she marries Ed Leary, a research scientist. Eileen is not always likeable. She seems cold to her son and critical of her husband’s lack of ambition. She is always striving for upward mobility until an illness reveals a different side of her. Although the pacing is leisurely, it appropriately reveals an American middle class family of the 20th Century—the way they live, love and adapt to unforeseen challenges.

--Reviewed by Connie R.

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