I was looking for hopeful...and the premise of the book looked intriguing. Myla Goldberg touched on the United States entrance into WWI, the arrival of bottled soda to Boston, and the Spanish Flu Epidemic of 1918. I’m not sure she did any of those themes justice. Too many voices, too many plot lines, no cohesive ending to tie it all together. Her attempt to use primary sources only “muddied the waters” with print that was so small (in the e-book version) that I had a hard time reading it. I was hopeful that the main character, Lydia, would be the hero of the day...sadly that didn’t happen.
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