This novel will take you on an emotional journey through the lives of two adult sisters with contrasting personalities. They have both hit a crossroads in their own lives where they have to choose which path to take. On their own, both Meredith and Nina trace their problems back to their relationship with their private and frigid, Russian mother, Anya. In all the time that they have been alive the only connection either of them has felt with their mother is through the nighttime fairy tales she would tell them, of "a peasant girl living in the Snow Kingdom, under the order of the Black Knight." But those stories have not been heard by either of them since long ago when their attempt to reenact the stories through a short play for a Christmas party outraged Anya and she refused to tell the story again. Meredith and Nina have both given up on having any connection to Anya.
The novel begins with the death of Evan, Anya's husband and Meredith and Nina's father. Then, the three women struggle together toward a new definition of family, as they give honor to Evan's last wishes for Anya to tell them the fairy tale again, but this time in it's entirety. The story begins as they remembered but the further Anya gets into it, her daughters realized that her story is starting to become a more real and personal tale of war and the tragedy that parallels with it. In the ending, there is a delicious surprise of fate, that will leave a smile in your heart.
I give this book 5 cups of tea! A must read!
Here's a sneak peek of the book:
Chapter 1
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