Amy E. Reichert The Optimist's Guide to Letting Go A Wonderful story of Mothers and Daughters, and the Secrets they Keep

The Optimist's Guide to Letting Go by author Amy E. Reichert is a wonderful story with layers and depths of life and drama between mothers and daughters. Lorraine, Regina & Victoria, and May are three generations in one family of women who each have had a disappointment which has been life-changing. Lorraine's secret comes to light after she has a stroke and her daughter Gina asks Lorraine's best friend Roza to help her identify some people in some old pictures. A major secret is discovered in Lorraine's past and she is not able to talk and explain to her daughters about their father.
Gina is still grieving the death of her husband and just tries to get through each day with her teenage daughter May. She has always felt her mother cared more for Vicky and had resented her choice to marry Drew. Now Drew is gone. May thinks her mother Gina, does not understand her grief for her father. She rarely speaks to her mom since her dads funeral. She is having problems adjusting and feels it is her mom's fault.
Three women, all related, and all misunderstood by each other. Read on to understand how the depth of love and the healing revelations of the secrets can make a change in their relationships with each other.
A heart touching story which leaves the reader with a feeling of hope.
I thought it was cute how they each referred to the coconut oil...now are you more curious?
Thank you to NetGalley and the Publisher for the opportunity to read and review this book.

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