A brief year with our protagonist, Ruth, and I enjoyed it. It's full of day to day life, and funny observations (a couple made me chuckle out loud), and all of these relatively mundane writings mask the jolts of astute perspectives on shifting views of parents, a parent in pain (deteriorating state), relationships, families, growing up. I quite liked this small novel; I liked that it wasn't grandiose or perplex. It's quiet and insightful.