I rejected Trigiani’s earlier two books in favour of this one that sounded more interesting. Then I figured out while reading it that they were a series of three. I’ll probably go back and read the first two at some point now.

The story spans about six years as the narrator’s daughter ages from twelve to eighteen. I really liked the time span. A lot of books cover a very short period of time, a year, or several lifetimes. I can’t remember reading many books covering a few years like this. The author has crammed tons into the story, some of which seems rather irrelevant (but which may make more sense in the contaxt of the two earlier books) but I liked it that way, it felt like a complete story.