This is a book that is about two women who grew up with a mother who is emotionally distant--to the extreme. In the middle of their lives, they learn that there is a reason for their mothers' inability to show love, and depicts a horrifying story of what it would have been like to live under the Russian dictator (?) Joseph Stalin.
It has been my experience that those who grow up with emotionally retarded parents aren't so conscious of their parent(s) shortcomings during childhood until an emotional breakdown later in life. Therefore, I found the two women characters a little annoying and unrealistic in their constant complaining about their mother.
A depressing but enlightening read.
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