Lynnie 
contemporary fiction
I liked This Is Your Life, Harriet Chance more in the beginning than in the end. Poor Harriet Chance, a 78 year old widow who finds out that her husband won an Alaskan cruise prior to his death. After much hemming & hawing she decides to go on the cruise.
It was an interesting story and yet really sad and depressing. Throughout the book Jonathan Evison presents us with revelations, flash backs to various points in Harriet's life and much gnashing of teeth about the dynamics of the entire Chance family. I gather that we were supposed to watch Harriet come to peace with all that has happened, but in reality it seemed that Harriet was more resigned about her life than anything else- this is it, this is what happened, oh well it's too late now. What a miserable journey.
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