The sisters, Ruth
and June, have very different lives. Ruth is struggling to raise her
four daughters and keep the farm working while her husband, John, is
incapacitated with sleeping sickness, a victim of the dread disease
that has felled many people around the country. June is the golden
girl, married to a wealthy doctor, she is also one of the Betty
Crockers, women who work in the test kitchens and are the women
behind the face of Betty Crocker.
Ruth has always
envied her older sister who she perceives as having everything, but
she has one thing June wanted, her husband John. Now John is out of
her reach and she feels lonely and rejected, but hasn’t her whole
life been that way? She has no way of knowing how difficult June’s
life is and how she still feels the loss of John.
When their mother,
Dorothy, brings them together at Ruth’s farm, the stage is set for
confrontation and old secrets emerge.
I found this book
rather slow. It is a character driven story and for me, none of the
characters was appealing. Ruth is angry and June, who appears to have
everything, can’t seem to accept how lucky she is. I think the
author did a good job describing how difficult life was for so many
people during the depression. However, my favorite scenes were with
the Betty Crockers. I found it fascinating how women were so drawn to
them and the betrayal they suffered when they discovered the
character was more than one woman.
I received this book
from Net Galley for this review.
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