In My Mother's House

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"Told in alternating voices (Elizabeth's and her mother, Jenny's), the story is remarkable for its emotional fullness and rich details: the assorted family silver the grandmother mails back piece by piece over the years; Jenny's wartime memories of music and her uncle's viola d'amore lessons; the fragrant smell of the wood floors at Hofzeile, the family's ancestoral house in Vienna." "As Elizabeth begins to fill in the gaps of Jenny's troubled memory, she stumbles upon a long-buried family secret. As she uncovers the details, she learns the true meaning of inheritance and how it shapes what we become." "In My Mother's House looks at the pain and cost of a family struggling to regain what took them generations to build. It's a poignant, expertly told novel that established Margaret McMullan as a novelist soon to join the ranks of writers such as Anita Shreve and Carol Shields."--BOOK JACKET.

Genre: Fiction / Historical / General (fancy, right?)