Author: Rowan Coleman
Length: 305 pages
We Are All Made of Stars
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Description
“Summer vacation on Great Rock Island was supposed to be a restorative time for Kate, who’d lost her close friend Elizabeth in a sudden accident. But when she inherits a trunk of Elizabeth’s journals, they reveal a woman far different than the cheerful wife and mother Kate thought she knew.
The complicated portrait of Elizabeth–her troubled upbringing, and her route to marriage and motherhood–makes Kate question not just their friendship, but her own deepest beliefs about loyalty and honesty at a period of uncertainty in her own marriage. When an unfamiliar man’s name appears in the pages, Kate realizes the extent of what she didn’t know about her friend, including where she was really going on the day she died.
The more Kate reads, the more she learns the complicated truth of who Elizabeth really was, and rethinks her own choices as a wife, mother, and professional, and the legacy she herself would want to leave behind.”
Janet Dore –
“It’s not easy, being in this world. Picking yourself up, getting yourself together, time after time, only for some bastard to whack you back down.”
I’m not usually a fan of sappy or predictable…definitely not of sappy AND predictable. Although “We Are All Made of Stars” was both for me, somehow the author had me liking it.
It helped tremendously that the (internal and external) dialogue was written well. The characters were all real, imperfect, and likable. It was effortless to see them in my head, as if I was watching a movie. (A Hallmark movie, for sure.) The deathbed letter chapter interludes from non-characters was a great touch.
As both of my parents are in their 90s, this book triggered me. As I read all of the heartfelt deathbed letters, I was faced with the loss of knowing that I will never get one. At this point, it’s abundantly clear that both of them will die as they lived…disconnected from both their emotions and their children. So, yeah, I cried often while reading this one and lived vicariously through some of the characters who received such precious gifts.