I want to thank Netgalley and the author for gifting me the ebook. Family drama type book. Good weekend t.

The title gave me a different view of a family inheritance book. I expected to read about materialistic peices being fought or left to a family inheritance.
Its quite true that we can also inherit the emotions and pasts from a deceased family.
This is a powerful story about domestic/child abuse, alcoholism, dysfuntional lives... Each sisters and mother's story is carefully explained.I felt abit of empathy for the three sisters and the mother.
They were born in lives not by choice but circumstance.
I was abit bothered reading and almost put this book down...but I needed to find out the outcomes and decisions of these women who were helpless as children and yet became strong because of their pasts.
Thus, those bad examples of neglect they had in their childhood helps them in the present life of their own children.
There is love,forgiveness, education & compassion learned in this book.Thats what held me to finish to the ending.
This is an ARC book given to me by Netgalley ,in return for my personal opinion of my own.

Thanks to Net Galley and the publisher for an advance copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.
This is the story of three sisters who had a tragic childhood, and who’s troubles manifested themselves into adulthood, repeating the patterns that they had learned from their damaged parents. Their mother Anna was married off as a child bride when she became pregnant at 16. She became overwhelmed with working their farm, and raising three girls and didn’t have time for love and affection. Her husband grew to be a monster that did unspeakable acts to his wife and children. Trigger warning this book deals with violence, addiction and incest.
I found myself rooting for these woman, especially Alice, to take back their lives and heal from their pasts.

Spoiler alert-Only complaint is that the story wraps up neatly, perhaps a bit too unrealistically as everyone gets what they deserve and the sisters and mother get a happy ending.

This book is one giant trigger! Three sisters grew up in a physically/sexually/emotionally abusive home. Each has continued issues in their adult lives from alcoholism, pain, more abuse, infidelity, self shaming. Over a period of 5-6 months, after their mother lapses into a diabetic coma, the sisters search to overcome these hurts. It was a difficult read. Their journey to recovery is uplifting at first. By the end of the book, all is wrapped in a nice bow which is not always realistic. I do not think the cover jacket of the book reflects the horrific plight of the sisters. Thank you, Netgalley, for the opportunity to review this book. 3 Stars

"Family Inheritance" by author Terri Ann Leidich oozes with examples of family dysfunction, including abuse, neglect, and addiction. It is a story of family strife and emotional challenge. Ms. Leidich takes the reader on a journey through the lives of three sisters from youth through adulthood.

As children, sisters Helene, Alice, and Suzanne felt unloved, lacked self-confidence, and were insecure. These unhealthy traits followed each young girl into her adult life and were exhibited by her poor decisions.

When their estranged mother becomes gravely ill, the sisters are forced to return to their childhood home to confront their ghosts, probe their buried pasts, and overcome their unresolved issues with both their mother and each other. Ms. Leidich weaves a tale in which readers will often identify with one of the characters and ask “Is that me?”

donna o'donnell figurski - author of Prisoners without Bars: A Caregiver's Tale

FAMILY INHERITANCE
BY TERRI ANN LEIDICH

This was a cautionary tale and so much more about how if we are not careful we can sometimes bring our childhood traumas into our adult lives. It is also the sad story how innocent children are damaged by the awful dysfunctional lives that parents can unwittingly cause their children by modeling a bad marriage for their children to witness. I thought at first that this story of three adult estranged siblings was going to be very dark. This pleasantly surprised me by being a story about hope and change for the better and redemption.

Dallas
Suzanne lives in Dallas and is the youngest of three grown adult sister's. She is divorced and has inherited the gene for alcoholism from her long dead father. She has a fantastic job but drinks to get drunk when she is lonely and she ends up having a lot of one night stands. A colleague who works beneath her gets her into a compromising position by taking pictures of her and then he proceeds to hold her hostage by her night of indiscretion. His name is Jeff and he bribes her into giving him a raise and promotions that he doesn't deserve by telling her that if she doesn't comply he will send the pictures to her boss, upper management and the CEO of the company.

Minnesota
Alice lives with an abusive husband who beats her up and also hurts her daughter while Alice spends time in her room after she puts their young son Sam to bed and goes to bed herself. Alice is overweight and she eats twelve candy bars at a time hiding in her room while she doesn't do housework and her daughter who is a teen aged suffers silently at the hands of her father and other boys her own age.

Atlanta
Helene is married to a lawyer and has one son named Thomas who is in his senior year of High school. One day Helene gets a phone call from her son's school saying he has missed a lot of school and has brought in notes signed by her and she is asked if she is aware of them. She decides to cover for her son and lies to the school saying she is aware of her son's absences. She knows that her husband is cheating on her and accepts his bad behavior because she thinks she somehow deserves it.

Obviously these three sister's have all grown up in a unhappy household where they all watched their father get drunk and mistreat their mother and Alice. Their mother did not stick up for herself or her daughter's but now lies in a diabetic coma and will not pass over until she knows that her three daughter's are reconciled and have started to change and have better self esteems. The three daughter's gather around their mother's death bed. She can hear them discussing their various problems.

The High school intervenes about Thomas's absences and orders him into counselling. The infidelities rise to the surface as the whole family begins family therapy. Alice moves her daughter and young son into a shelter for abused women. Suzanne takes a leave of absence from her job and joins rehabilitation for her alcoholism. There is some magical realism that takes place in five month's time as all three sister's seek help and take responsibility for their lives. The enabling stops and by coming together they all find support from one another. They spend Christmas together and visit their mother who still lays unconscious but feels that her daughter's are in a better place and all three of them are but not before changing their behavior's.

Publication Date: October 1, 2014

Thank you to Net Galley, Terri Ann Leidich and BQB Publishing for providing me with my ARC in exchange for a fair and honest review. All opinions are my own.

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Not enthusiastic about this book. Three sisters come together at their dying mother's bedside. All emotionally damaged at children due to an abusive father. Somehow, they all manage to get over their traumas and go on to live good lives.

If you like novels of dysfunctional families, then this book is for you.

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I liked how this book dealt with different kinds of problems and abuse. It showd how your childhood affects you later in life. And how even if your life seams perfect it usually is not.
I also liked how it was told from different perspectives and how it all turned out at the end.
The writing was good and kept my interest throughout the book. Some of the descriptions of the caracters became offensive after a while and made the book a bit awkward to read.

I found this book very difficult to read. It dealt with so many issues stemming from an abusive loveless childhood. When the three sisters return home to make peace with their comatose mother they are all dealing with very dysfunctional lives. Infidelity, spousal abuse, alcoholism, and weight issues follow them back to Minnesota. When they gather together they discover that they all have their dark place to overcome. They need to deal with the past and try to move forward – can they forgive their father for his abuse and their mother for her neglect? Can they forgive each other? They blame each other for desertion and lack of solidarity, never realising that they had each suffered their own private traumas. Will a therapist help them confront the past?

The story actually flowed rather well in spite of the difficult topics and the emotions. The characters were well developed and you were able to connect and feel for them. This book would connect with readers who enjoy a thought provoking read or someone who likes to read fiction based upon societies ills. I was not expecting that much angst when I picked up this book, reader be warned.

I liked the synopsis of this book, but it was rather body shaming of Alice. I didn't like that bit