Abby truly gets into her characters heads, revealing all of the inner thoughts. Even to the point of senseless rambling. (Something we're all guilty of inside our heads). The narration switches quite often, which was a little confusing at first, but then suddenly, everything clicked.


This suddenly became a very fun tale of Frances, Anne, and the rest of the neighborhood clan. We got to read all their deepest secrets, the ones every parent thinks but would never voice out loud, not even to their spouses.
It's very refreshing to read a story that deals a lot more with thoughts than actions, especially since there wasn't actually a lot of action.
At the beginning Anne has her affair, is caught, chaos ensues. However since this story has so many different narrators, it's a different sort of chaos. Everyone in the neighborhood makes their own decisions about Anne's affair, and makes decisions in their own life based on their feelings.
It's hard to talk too much about this one without giving away spoilers, but overall it was a fun read. It's a novel that doesn't take itself too seriously and cleverly shares what we've all thought at some point in time.

I loved this book! The neighborhood is a community and responds to everything that takes place., The community members are our friends and neighbors, conversations similar to our daily lives. It is happy and sad, serious and irreverent, funny and touching and so down to earth realistic. Truly a "must read".