This is not a bad book and some of our club members really liked it. But most of us felt it was too long and had very little payoff for the length of the book. This is better for an individual read. AT 560 pages, it's a lot to slog through if you hate it - and we all know we end up reading things we hate for book club at times. So, overall consensus was that it wasn't terrible but needed some serious editing. We will stick to shorter books in the future.

This book takes the stories of three women living near Lake Superior during different parts of history and intersperses them. However, the three stories do not every connect or relate to each other in any way except that they are all women and all by the lake. The group's consensus was that it should have either been three short stories or one story should have been developed into a book. The author could have explored aspects of the lake in greater depth, and we were frustrated that the characters were so broken and flat. No plot, no interesting characters, no insightful descriptions of the geography...we had nothing to discuss except how the book could have been better.

The group liked this book overall. We mostly agreed to some weakness in the writing but felt that after the first 1/3, the book really picked up. We had an active discussion and several members were inspired to read more of this author\\\\\\\'s books.